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by eegilbert 3659 days ago
One example is this recent paper on learning (somewhat) high-level attributes of text from character streams alone (i.e., without telling the convolutional networks that things like words and punctuation exist).

https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01710

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>> We show that temporal ConvNets can achieve astonishing performance

Yay, astonishing performance! I'm totally gonna waste half an hour of my life to read about what awesome badassery convnets are! Because that sounds so objective!

/snark