Hacker Papers

1. 01
   

   Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence

   Shane Legg, Marcus Hutter · 2007

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2016Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
   • Oct 2017Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence (2007)
   • Feb 2015Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
   • Aug 2016Will This “Neural Lace” Brain Implant Help Us Compete with AI?
   • Sep 2017Where will artificial general intelligence come from?
   • Aug 2018Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart
   • Dec 2018Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality
   • Jan 2022Intuition is a “superpower”
   • Apr 2022The singularity is close?
   • Mar 2023And yet It Understands

   arXiv ↗
2. 02
   

   Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes

   Juergen Schmidhuber · 2008

   Hacker News threads

   • Jan 2017Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity,
   • Aug 2019Driven by Compression Progress (Schmidhuber, 2008)
   • Apr 2023Driven By Compression Progress (2008)
   • Sep 2017Ask HN: CS as a philosophy
   • Oct 2017Intelligence Reconsidered
   • Mar 2021Information Is Surprise (2015)
   • Mar 2021Hutter Prize
   • Jul 2024Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?
   • Mar 2025ARC-AGI without pretraining
   • Aug 2026Compression Is Prediction
   • Sep 2026Asking Authors About Their Own Papers

   arXiv ↗
3. 03
   

   Teaching Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Play Go

   Christopher Clark, Amos Storkey · 2014

   Hacker News threads

   • Dec 2014Teaching Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Play Go
   • May 2015Show HN: Recurrent neural net plays 'neural slime volleyball' in JavaScript
   • Jul 2015How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone
   • Aug 2015IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1B
   • Aug 2015IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1B
   • Sep 2015AI Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level
   • Nov 2015Watch an AI bot play Go [video]

   arXiv ↗
4. 04
   

   Stable image reconstruction using total variation minimization

   Deanna Needell, Rachel Ward · 2012

   Hacker News threads

   • Sep 2013The Rest of the Lenna Story
   • Apr 2016What convolutional neural networks look at when they see nudity
   • Feb 2019Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs
   • Mar 2024Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

   arXiv ↗
5. 05
   

   Deep Fried Convnets

   Zichao Yang et al. · 2014

   Hacker News threads

   • Jun 2015What's Wrong with Deep Learning?
   • Oct 2016Deep-Fried Data
   • Oct 2017The often-overlooked random forest kernel
   • Feb 2018Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning

   arXiv ↗

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