CapsNet, capsules, vision as 3D-reconstruction and re-rendering and mainstream approval of ideas and insights of Boris Kazachenko and Todor Arnaudov

First impressions on Hinton et al. "Capsules"/CapsNet update to the convolutional NN/CNN that got popular recently with their latest paper on Dynamic routing. 1. Hinton approves Boris Kazachenko's old claim and criticism to ANN in his Cognitive Algorithm (CogAlg) writings that the coordinates of the input should be preserved and that this is one of the CNN/ANN design faults. 2. The "Dynamic routing" sounds to me as their way to generate "new syntax" in CogAlg terms, as  different ways for evaluation of the input....

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Hackafe Logo and Over the Moon+ Shader Аrt on Shadertoy

1. Hackafe Logo - https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4lffzf  and its sad-funny story Анимация с логото на  пловдивския хакерспейс "Хакафе" и тъжно-смешен разказ за историята му: .. 2. Over the Moon+  https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ltSyWt  BigWings, extended by Tosh/Twenkid ... 3. Craters https://www.shadertoy.com/view/llSfzh by NickWest, mapped to a sphere: ...

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XAI - or explainable AI - a new buzz word

XAI or eXplainable AI, that's the new way of DARPA for addressing the problem that intelligence is about understanding, analysis, causality, prediction/planning etc. https://www.darpa.mil/program/explainable-artificial-intelligence That reflects or goes along with political tendencies which would limit the usage of CNN/RNN/Deep Learning systems when they can't give "reasonable" explanation of their decisions, for example in an automatic selection process. That article gives more info about the new laws:  http://www.kdnuggets.com/2017/08/deep-learning-not-ai-future.html The...

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Python thread "daemon" property may hang your console

A little discovery, while playing with some of Adrian's tutorials at Pyimagesearch involving a threaded web camera sampling. It seems that a thread shouldn't be declared as a "daemon", because after the script ends, a zombie  hangs the console where the Python process is executed. That's the specific example which was debugged: From : https://github.com/jrosebr1/imutils/blob/master/imutils/video/webcamvideostream.py from threading import Thread ... def start(self): # start the thread to read frames from the...

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Deep Learning tutorials, demos and study materials - CNN, RNN, OpenCV, Python

Sure, there's plenty of them which pop in the search results, but there you are some materials which I would suggest: 1. How Deep Neural Networks Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILsA4nyG7I0 2. How Convolutional Neural Networks work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmpDIaiMIeA Etc. from the same author. Pyimagesearch Check the latest posts in the Pyimagesearch blog for Computer vision. Using the latest OpenCV 3.3 there are powerful modules which allow to start playing with trained neural networks...

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NLTK's Swadesh List in the Bulgarian-Macedonian part | Списък на Суадеш

While browsing the Swadesh list from the NLTK corpus, especially the Bulgarian and Macedonian*  columns. The Swadesh list is a corpus from comparative/historical/developmental linguistics, which is trying to map how languages evolved by tracking the most stable subset of words. It's also suggestive in the field of language acquisition/child language/developmental psychology/evolutionary psychology, because one can imagine which words would appear first in the vocabulary of a primitive human society and may reach to the...

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Insights from the Blue Brain's latest paper on Cliques of Neurons bound into cavities ...

Cliques of Neurons Bound into Cavities Provide a Missing Link between Structure and Function Front. Comput. Neurosci., 12 June 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2017.00048https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-06-blue-brain-team-multi-dimensional-universe.html I think the paper is a good food for thought, it directs for some advanced/interesting areas of mathematics such as Algebraic Topology. Concepts and ideas to think about: DAG/graphs, (directed) cliques, simplex/simplices, directed simplical complexes, sink/source...

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Cherry Jam's debut music video - "On the Cherry Tree" | Blues-Rock-Jazz Comedy Song

Camera operator and editing - Todor Arnaudov, the author of maybe the first University course in Artificial General Intelligence in the world*, taught at Plovdiv University in 2010... ;) More serious stuff to come... LOL The video was edited mainly with "Twenkid FX Studio"** and processed also with a set of free software tools: FFmpeg, VirtualDub, Audacity. The lyrics is in Bulgarian. * Not counting the summer school after the Xiamen's AGI conference in 2009 ** Twenkid FX Studio is an in-house system...

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Телевизията и детето, Вирджилиу Георге и забележки от Тодор Арнаудов - чернова -- Television Damages the Brain

Добавка от 2018 г.: Публицистична статия от Тодор във в-к "Пловдивски университет" - "Бягство от прекрасния видео свят":http://twenkid.blogspot.com/2018/05/brave-new-video-world.html Обобщение, съдържание и кратки извадки от книгата "Телевизията и детето" на биофизика Вирджилиу Георге, изд. Омофор 2010, и забележки от Тодор Арнаудов, чернова от 28/11/2016 г. Телевизията и детето Задължително четиво за родители! Какво причинява "спокойствието", което печелите като оставите децата да се хипнотизират от телевизора. Бебе,...

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Funny Deep Learning Image Captioning - Sentence Generation

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/generationdemo/ a baby laying on a bed with a stuffed bear a bowl of fruit is sitting on a table a group of elephants walking across a dirt road a cat sitting on a window sill looking out the window a bunch of bananas are on a table a man sitting on a couch with a laptop and a laptop a man is playing tennis on a tennis court a woman sitting on a couch with a laptop a woman is standing in front of a store Too many of them. It seems the authors like skateboard,...

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