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Pedro Domingos, for those who don't know, wrote "The Master Algorithm" and is a professor at the University of Washington. Recently, Anima Anandkumar (Director
by throwawaysea 6y ago
Pedro Domingos, for those who don't know, wrote "The Master Algorithm" and is a professor at the University of Washington. Recently, Anima Anandkumar (Director of AI at nvidia) tried to get him cancelled/blacklisted. I wrote more about the incident in this comment from a past HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25419871 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25419871
- znpy 6y agointerestingly, most of the tweets linked in your link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25419871 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25419871) are either unavailable or from an account that "does not exist anymore".
- wmf 6y agoAnima Anandkumar got off Twitter recently.
- nitrogen 6y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20201215001433/https://twitter.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/1338282250614411264 https://web.archive.org/web/20201215001433/https://twitter.c... Edit: it's a very long thread of screenshots of blocked users, followed by "In that case use it as a #cancel list". I haven't used Twitter since 2011 or so, and I didn't realize how deep the rabbit hole goes.
- dekhn 6y agoAnima deleted her twitter. I think even she realized how over the top her behavior made her look.