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Book Shazam Https://Books.shibumi-ai.com Computer vision based book recommendation engine


It look very cool. Is there any browser addon?


Tesseract is a nice tool, bur is a bit behind in adoption of cutting edge technologies. See here an up to date comparison - https://towardsdatascience.com/ocr-101-all-you-need-to-know-...


Right, that's kinda nasty. Titles of papers refer deep learning, but I don't think fully connected networks might be considered a as deep learning.


What? No. Fully connected networks are deep learning, and actually the most important deep learning workload. See: Applied Machine Learning at Facebook: A Datacenter Infrastructure Perspective:

https://research.fb.com/publications/applied-machine-learnin...

Table 1 shows News Feed service uses fully connected networks model, and table 3 shows this workload dominates all other workloads.


Transformers, which are currently waging a successful campaign to conquer all Deep Learning, are largely stacked feed-forward networks, matrix multiplies and maps. Some ideas to make attention more scalable, such as LSH or large sparse attention matrices seem like they'd be well suited to this approach.

Their approach should also be readily adaptable to RNNs, including LTSMs.

Certainly worth investigating as an alternative for efficiently running and training giant networks on less expensive hardware.


How do you evaluate recommenders? You enter 5-10 entries, and see whether recommendations are relevant. (e.g see a few books I've read and liked) So I'm sorry, but I couldn't find any in this one. Nice UI though.


I recall that in the 18th century people tried to build a computer, so... What's your point? Computer vision didn't work back than, and it does work now, but not for everything. If you don't understand it you should go read about it, not posting pointless replies


How is it useful? (Sorry for my ignorance)


I am more worried being implicated with distribution of child pornography. The government is watching what comes through the pipes, and it’s your name on the pipe.


Oh in my case it's an entry bridge I run, not an exit relay. That's the one you really need to worry about being. It's not recommended anyone does that (at least at home). What I'm recommending is very safe as it doesn't directly connect your computer or IP address to anything bad. I've run this node for about 2 years now. Tor project has excellent explainer pages about the risks and how it all works.

If however you mean not being involved with the Tor project in any capacity whatsoever, I really insist that that's the wrong, and a very dangerous anti-freedom philosophy to take.

At some point, we have to take a stand and defend the right to absolute encryption for anybody, no questions asked. Why? Because this is the normal human experience.

Privacy is normal and healthy. Having everything you do recorded and stored by others permanently, is not normal or healthy.

The more you use and promote the use of encryption, privacy and anti-censorship technologies in benign and good contexts like mine, the less it's dismissed as an automatic indicator of crime.

As far as I'm concerned, I consider myself lucky that I have legal freedom of association in my own country so that I can even safely run this Tor bridge. As to the court of public opinion on the social level in my community, all I need to do is explain this important humanitarian use case that I do it for.


I Worked as a quant for a few years, but in a certain point moved to data science and lost interest in stock market.

Read many technical and non technical books, and I recommend this one - Berton J Malchiel - A random walk down Wall-Street.

Simple but not simplistic, it has some great useful lifelong tips for investment. I follow it's advice for >10 years - from 2008 crisis, until these crazy days.


Love to hear anyone more people who invented a cure for their own illness


Have you tried Hebrew?


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