I pitched projects to new graduate students in the Physics and Data Science programs today; hopefully some will stick. Late in the day, I took out new Data Science Fellow Brenden Lake (NYU) for a beer, along with Brian McFee (NYU) and Foreman-Mackey. We discussed many things, but we were blown away by Lake's experiments on single-instance learning: Can a machine learn to identify or generate a class of objects from seeing only a single example? Humans are great at this but machines are not. He showed us comparisons between his best machines and experimental subjects found on the Mechanical Turk. His machines don't do badly!
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