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		anigbrowl on Jan 30, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-G... If you're not a researcher, why are you doing it? If you have any other motivation besides discovery, expect that to get automated away in short order and whatever you do to rapidly become obsolete. Curiosity is your best asset.

akhilcacharya on Jan 31, 2017 [–]

Many image problems can still be solved by machine learning solutions - if I don't need to spend time re-inventing the wheel, why do so?

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