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He is paraphrasing parts of 1984 by George Orwell.

Your comment must be sarcastic as well. Please tell me that you don't actually believe that the government should hold a monopoly on truth...


Yeah, I'm aware there's a fictional book being referenced. Back in the real world - what does "monopoly on truth" mean?


I hadn’t heard of this before. Cool. Going to share this with my team on Monday.


> For example, the CEO notes that the company’s internal principles ban certain uses of the technology, “such as to support mass surveillance or violate human rights.” It’s because of concerns like this that Google doesn’t sell facial recognition technology.

Extremely rich from a corporation that sponsors CAPE Productions and Cogniac. Google doesn't sell this technology directly, but lets its Gradient Ventures VC firm do it instead.


Peter Thiel has a good book on this [1].

[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one


The advent of GANs by Ian Goodfellow and the experimentation done regarding adversarial attacks was extremely important for the ML research space.


An easy way to get started that doesn't use pure ML is Markovify [1]. I used it for a couple of projects last year.

[1] - https://github.com/jsvine/markovify


This is a great way to describe it. I love any Fountainhead reference.



I trained a model on Isaac Asimov stories to produce 3-panel webcomics that get served onto a Twitter feed a couple of times a day. If you'd like, I can share it and you can check it out!


Yes, please!


https://nightfall.glitch.me/ :)

It was inspired by Archillect and A Softer World [1].

[1] - http://www.asofterworld.com/


Great job on the article! Really succinct and a good introduction to the topic. Would've really helped me in undergrad when I first was learning about the Fast Fourier Transform.


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