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Comment author: red75 06 June 2010 10:18:05AM 3 points [-]

Hello. I'm 35, Russian, work as very applied programmer. I end up here by side effect of following path RNN -> RBM -> DBN -> G. E. Hinton -> S. Legg's blog.

I was almost confident about my biases, when "Generalizing From One Example" take me by surprise (some time ago I noticed that I cannot visualize abstract colored cube without thinking color's name, so I generalized. Now I generalized this case of generalization, and had a strange feeling). I'd attention switch and desided to explore.

Comment author: RobinZ 07 June 2010 04:21:19PM 1 point [-]

Welcome!

If you want a cool place to start, I recommend the links on the About page and whatever strikes your fancy when you page through the Sequences - "Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People" is a particularly interesting one if you liked "Generalizing From One Example".

Comment author: red75 07 June 2010 05:59:55PM 0 points [-]

Thanks. This site is so content rich, I found it diffucult to even overview full range of topics. And yes, the Sequences are handy.