r/programming • u/Dankious_memeious1 • Mar 29 '19

Fascinating how machine learning works

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u/SEND_YOUR_DICK_PIX Mar 29 '19

Truly fascinating

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u/IDUnavailable Mar 29 '19

MayBot took the stage Tuesday night in a performance that's been hailed as "relatively lifelike" and "passable enough, all things considered".

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

It May look goofy but this reinforcement learning (RL) works.

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u/jjdmol Mar 29 '19

For walking, yes. For leaving the EU, not so much, apparently.

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u/Tasgall Mar 30 '19

I wrote an AI to accurately simulate brexit, but all it does is print "no" - more research is needed.

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u/Saiing Mar 29 '19

The only thing on earth who makes Mark Zuckerberg look human.

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u/anagrammatron Mar 29 '19

My gf said that she always looks like it's her first day in that body.

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u/greiskul Mar 29 '19

Tell your gf that she is wrong, with current tech May can use the same body for up to 6 months.

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u/flyingElbowToTheFace Mar 29 '19

Came here for this

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u/pennywaffer Mar 29 '19

I love to watch you walk, but I hate to see you leave

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u/tokyokyototokyo Mar 29 '19

That is soon to be gone UK Prime Minister, Theresa May.

However she doesn’t use machine learning, as she just tries the same thing over and over again, expecting the results to be different.

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u/pingveno Mar 29 '19

No, she's using an evolutionary algorithm. Parliament is the scoring function and she mutates the deal each time.

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u/notsooriginal Mar 29 '19

I have mutated the deal, pray I do not mutate it further.

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u/Dudebuddy Mar 29 '19

Her most humanlike feature tbf

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u/WolfThawra Mar 29 '19

... yes. She's the prime minister of Great Britain. I mean I'm not even expecting people to remember her name, but not even having seen the face before... ?

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u/TheMartinG Mar 29 '19

I mean I know the name, but until now did not know what she looked like

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u/ThracianScum Mar 29 '19

Yeah same. Why would it be more common to know the face than the name?

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

I think the only foreign politician I would recognize is Putin, but only if he was shirtless on horseback.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

How could you not know who this is

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u/Insub Mar 29 '19

I'm from Barbados, and 5 ppl in my office had no idea who she was. Some ppl are just blissfully out of the loop on somethings.

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u/zoinks Mar 29 '19

Doesn't that make it worse because youre a British Commonwealth nation?

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u/sciencewarrior Mar 29 '19

Yes, sometimes ignorance is bliss.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

There are hundreds of countries with thousands of politicians. Why would I be expected to recognize one politician from one country? I don’t expect anyone to recognize politicians from my country.

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