Episode 88 - Chad Davies on the Scientific Odyssey
Recorded: 16 February 2018 Released: 17 February 2018 Duration: 85 minutes, 8 seconds download the…
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Episode 24 - Define Panspermia
Recorded: 11 September 2015 Released: 12 September 2015 Duration: 114 minutes, 36 seconds download …
Episode 18 - Choosing Science
Recorded: 7 August 2015 Released: 8 August 2015 Duration:93 minutes 48 seconds download the .mp3 au…
Episode 6 - Faster Than Light?
Recorded: 8 May 2015 No. Released: 9 May 2015 Duration: 94 minutes, 58 seconds download the .mp3 au…
Machine Learning Doesn't Matter?
Bagpipes and International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML) in Edinburgh Two weeks ago, I atte…
"I shot the cat with my proton gun."
I often listen to lectures and audiobooks when I drive more than 2 hours because I don't always…
Kant's Intuitions, the intentional stance, and reverse-engineering the mind
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) , Daniel Dennett (1942-), Josh Tenenbaum (~1971-) “Thoughts without cont…
Computer Vision is Artificial Intelligence
Computer vision is a diverse field and its researchers have multifaceted interests and aspirations.…
I, for one, welcome our new Visual Memex-based overlords
Welcome to the era of visual intelligence -- the era of Visual Memex-based overlords (now in 3D!) …
Back to basics: Vision Science Transcends Mathematics
Vision (a.k.a. image understanding, image interpretation, perception, object recognition) is quite…
Beyond Categories =? Doing without Concepts
The term "beyond category," from my limited knowledge, was originally coined to describe …
Wittgenstein's Critique of Abstract Concepts
In his Philosophical Investigations , Wittgenstein argues against abstraction -- via several though…
Linguistic Idealism
I have been an anti-realist since a freshman in college. Due to my lack of philosophical vocabular…
On Edelman's "On what it means to see"
I previously mentioned Shimon Edelman in my blog and why his ideas are important for the advanceme…
Beyond Categorization: Getting Away From Object Categories in Computer Vision
Natural language evolved over thousands of years to become the powerful tool that is is today. When…
Computer Vision Courses, Measurement, and Perception
The new semester began at CMU and I'm happy to announce that I'm TAing my advisor's 16-…
Computer Vision as immature?
Ashutosh Saxena points out on his web page an interesting quote from Wikipedia about Computer Visi…
6.870 Object Recognition and Scene Understanding
This semester at MIT, Antonio Torralba is teaching 6.870 Object Recognition and Scene Understandin…
Shimon Edelman: Constraints on the nature of the neural representation of the visual world
I came across a nice short article written by Shimon Edelman titled Constraints on the nature of t…
Android is the most modern application platform
Exceptionally, in this blog entry I intend to talk about philosophy instead of hard software code. …