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by CyberDildonics 3322 days ago
It isn't 'very impressive work', it is marketing for Silicon Valley (impressive marketing though).

Literally the first sentence of the linked page:

"Even though over 70% of internet traffic today is digital media, the way images and video are represented and transmitted has not evolved much in the past 20 years (apart from Pied Piper's Middle-Out algorithm)."

EDIT: This is embarrassing that not one person in this thread seems to have actually read any of the paper. Now with obvious evidence that this is fiction, people still don't want to believe it.
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bhouston 3322 days ago
There are real people behind it:

https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=reEAEWsAAAAJ&hl=en

https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=OXFjRnEAAAAJ&hl=en

Company entry on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/12953035/

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CyberDildonics 3322 days ago
It literally quotes a fictional TV show in the synopsis and directly in the paper. Are you seriously not getting that is is fiction?

Why would they have this in the actual PDF?

"Finally, Pied Piper has recently claimed to employ ML techniques in its Middle-Out algorithm (Judge et al., 2016), although their nature is shrouded in mystery"

This is promotion, they are getting a fake paper to permeate throughout the internet. If I had to guess, I would say they are making a statement about reproducing results in academia and not taking a single paper as gospel. If so, I think they are making their point pretty well.

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bhouston 3322 days ago
Okay, it may be. It is something that can be done from a technical level for sure, given enough training data and enough data on the client side to do reconstructions.

I guess once you get popular enough you can get TV consultants who can propose real solutions as TV props. Heh.

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dschndstryr 3322 days ago
It's humor. Everything else looks kinda real. The science is bad though, because it lacks all details needed to reproduce and the evaluation is a bit fishy. They also claim it's super fast without mentioning what makes their approach fast.
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CyberDildonics 3322 days ago
No one else seems to realize that.
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