carlthome

carlthome t1_j0tdgxz wrote

As someone who's actually enjoyed Twitter for its presence of paper authors in music ML/MIR with minimal social media drama, I'm happy to see that healthy part of the ML community steadily migrating to Mastodon.

Even though the UX is less polished, I think it's worth saving those cross-uni/corp discussions somehow, so I hope enough people will give the move a honest and patient try.

https://mastodon.social/@carlthome

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carlthome t1_iqx9kbo wrote

This is a bit like why computers happen to use binary and not ternary. Everything has been tried before.

There's a long and rich history for artificial neural networks but everybody seems to gravitate toward fewer moving parts in their already uncertain and difficult work.

I guess eventually the paved road of today's MLPs with GPUs became so convenient to use that very few have the time or means to try something radically different without good reason.

This is a fun read by the way: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/468606/why-arent-neural-networks-used-with-rbf-activation-functions-or-other-non-mono

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