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Detroit: Become Human review โ meticulous multiverse of interactive fiction
With a gargantuan 4,000-page script, it is a near-miracle that Detroit: Become Human manages to tell a single coherent story at all. Gradual, ever-developing and interwoven tales lead towards a myriad of endings. So vast is the scope of this mammoth work of interactive fiction that each person who plays it may have a close to unique experience. Indeed, the way that the story bends and morphs around the player is much more interesting than the story itself. Decisions have weight: do you pursue a rogue android across a busy highway, or let it escape?
[D] What makes variational dropout so popular for neural networks? โข r/MachineLearning
Getting uncertainty is an important topic for neural networks. I, and many others, think that variational inference is the way forward. It seems that the most popular approach is to use a Bernoulli distribution for approximation. This follows mainly from the work of Yarin Gal, who shows that the Bernoulli approximation amounts to doing dropout. Another simple approximation is the Gaussian approximation.
Feds: Uber Self-Driving SUV Saw Pedestrian; Did Not Brake
The NTSB report comes a day after Uber pulled its self-driving cars out of Arizona, eliminating the jobs of about 300 people who served as backup drivers and performed other jobs connected to the vehicles. Uber had suspended testing of its self-driving vehicles in Arizona, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto while regulators investigated the cause of the March 18 crash.
VR Is Waiting For It's AOL Moment
You've probably forgotten how hard it was to operate a personal computer in 1994. It's possible you were little or hadn't been born yet. Outside of the Mac was a terrifying mess. Windows version 3.0 was text-based (command/prompt). Early Internet users needed a combination of programs to get onto the web.