{"id":4568,"date":"2017-10-24T16:21:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T22:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2017-10-25T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:49:43","slug":"seven-things-for-october-24-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/seven-things-for-october-24-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Things for October 24, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Machine learning, and especially deep learning, is all the rage, so here are some (vaguely) graphics-related tie ins:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew Glassner is finishing <a href=\"https:\/\/dlbasics.com\/\">a book on deep learning<\/a>;\u00a0free chapter on backpropagation <a href=\"http:\/\/dlbasics.com\/backpropagation-chapter-sneak-preview\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t wait for the book and want a quick intro, check out Angelo Pesce&#8217;s posts <a href=\"http:\/\/c0de517e.blogspot.com\/2017\/03\/a-programmers-sightseeing-tour-machine.html\">one<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/c0de517e.blogspot.ca\/2017\/04\/a-programmers-sightseeing-tour-machine.html\">two<\/a>. Your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/22\/technology\/artificial-intelligence-experts-salaries.html\">fortune is assured<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The version with sound of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=itACOKJHYmw\">this research from DeepMind<\/a>\u00a0is hilarious and slightly grim.<\/li>\n<li>So cleanse your palate with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g0TaYhjpOfo\">these robots falling over<\/a>\u00a0to cheery music during DARPA&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DARPA_Robotics_Challenge\">robotics challenge<\/a>.<em> (from Jan Kautz)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re safe from mobile robots for now, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/229196000\">Coke display in Times Square<\/a>\u00a0may hypnotize us all in the meantime. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1DaCrQIdhsk\">a peek inside<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/science-and-technology\/21721890-games-help-them-understand-reality-why-ai-researchers-video-games\">Why AI researchers like video games<\/a>\u00a0is a fun little read.<\/li>\n<li>Blade Runner 2049 was worthwhile, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outerplaces.com\/science-fiction\/item\/13971-blade-runner-sequel-deckard-replicant\">in my heart Deckard will always be a replicant<\/a>. Better yet is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/6\/1\/11787262\/blade-runner-neural-network-encoding\">training a neural net to reproduce the original Blade Runner film<\/a>\u00a0(more technical info\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@Terrybroad\/autoencoding-blade-runner-88941213abbe\">here<\/a>), which brings up interesting copyright issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machine learning, and especially deep learning, is all the rage, so here are some (vaguely) graphics-related tie ins: Andrew Glassner is finishing a book on deep learning;\u00a0free chapter on backpropagation here. If you can&#8217;t wait for the book and want a quick intro, check out Angelo Pesce&#8217;s posts one and two. Your fortune is assured. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,589],"class_list":["post-4568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-books","tag-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4573,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions\/4573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}