The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
Are games fun? This is an important question for people in training because not only animation but now “gamification” is a new trend. But are “games” fun? Winning is fun. Interacting with others with whom you are playing can be fun. Games can be entertaining and sometime they are fun, but when we think about making training more effective, we need to think less about having fun and more about what it means to learn.
Source: Education Outrage: Pragmatic Learning: It’s not “fun”
$50 million were “stolen” from a project called “The DAO” and now the Ethereum community is deciding how to move forward and recover from…
A look at the Elastic stack, a versatile collection of open source software tools that make gathering insights from data easier. Learn the capabilities, requirements, and interesting use cases that apply to each.
Source: Overview of the Elastic Stack, open source software tools for data insights | Opensource.com
LSTMs are explicitly designed to avoid the long-term dependency problem. Remembering information for long periods of time is practically their default behavior, not something they struggle to learn!
Source: Understanding LSTM Networks — colah’s blog
I wonder what would happen if one trained an LSTM network with a couple million court opinions plus code and regulations. Would it be able to answer even a simple legal question?