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shreyassaxena

174 karma · joined May 23, 2014

Phd Student, Machine learning and Computer vision
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shreyassaxena··on Introducing Gradient Ventures
https://cogniac.co/ The demo over here seems to be fabricated. Even if you provide wrong labels interactively, the performance of the classifier keeps increasing ...

Picked up from https://gradient.google/portfolio/

shreyassaxena··on Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02492 ^^

Disclaimer: I am the author

shreyassaxena··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Hi, great work. Just curious, how did you collect the data? I tried searching with some cities in Europe, but it does not work.
shreyassaxena··on Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
OP here, not sure who has changed the title. Thought it was relevant to the paper.

Original title: First publication from Apple: ...

shreyassaxena··on Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters
I guess they should add a minimum margin for the referendum to pass a resolution.
shreyassaxena··on What photos of Facebook’s new headquarters say about work
It is quite interesting to see how Facebook and other corporations are re branding open-office, which in practice looks like a factory of workers. Somehow, the idea is to convince people that it promotes openness and productivity. Someone in the article says it is easy for her to schedule meetings on the fly, which also means it is easy for her to access the employees. However, not sure if I would like to be so accessible when I want to zone in, and work on a project.
shreyassaxena··on A Face Recognition Algorithm That Finally Outperforms Humans
No it is wrong, the actual human performance on full images is close to 99%. [1] Ctrl+F human

The performance of human it reports is on cropped images shown to human, which is not a fair comparison.

[1] http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/results.html

shreyassaxena··on H. Sebastian Seung, a prophet of the connectome, the wiring diagram of the brain
I was wondering for the same, thanks!