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"Joins Stanford HAI" is correct; "Leaves Google" is not right–I'm keeping my Google badge, but will spend most of my time at Stanford.

by norvig 5y ago

peter_retief 5y ago
Nice Peter.
Alekhine 5y ago
One great reason to come to HN is that you can find a thread on any tech personality, and semi often they'll just show up in the comments.
- agumonkey 5y ago
  I almost answered "who are you to talk about P.N." to his own comment :cough:
- de_nied 5y ago
  We're quirky like that.
- ngcc_hk 5y ago
  After reading and running his code etc, it is a shock to see him turn up here.
  - coliveira 5y ago
    Why, do you think he doesn't use the internet?
9387367 5y ago
> norvig.com is protected by Imunify360 > We have noticed an unusual activity from your IP and blocked access to this website.
jcims 5y ago
Hey Dr Norvig, really enjoyed your podcast episode with Lex Fridman a couple of years ago. Once you get settled in it would be great to hear an update with how its going, some color around the background and objectives of the program and maybe just riff on the subject for a bit. Thanks!
- phreeza 5y ago
  I think sadly Fridman has since left the path of conducting interesting interviews with accomplished AI researchers and now caters to a kind of vapid pseudo-philosophical TED-talk crowd.
  - ta988 5y ago
    What interviews make you think that?
    - phreeza 5y ago
      There were several that gave me this impression but Eric Weinstein and one about UFOs (forgot the name of the interviewee) come to mind.
      - jcims 5y ago
        It's ok man, it's not a religion. You can skip those if you don't like them. He's also had James Gosling, Don Knuth (x2), James Keller (x2), Brian Kernighan and a bunch of other legends.
        phreeza 5y ago
        You are right of course, but this whole phenomenon really rubs me the wrong way. There is a whole host of podcasts now that provide a large audience to borderline crackpots. I believe it actually pushes people who are maybe otherwise quite intelligent to adopt such theories, because of the large audience that can now be reached with such stuff. Another good example is Avi Loeb and the Alien-Omuamua theory, explained quite well here: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/o1dhlf/comment/h23caw4/ https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/o1dhlf/comm...
andyxor 5y ago
Big fan of your spellchecker
deleted 5y ago
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nothrowaways 5y ago
A huge fan of those string algorithms and Those notebooks. Real craftsmanship.

"Joins Stanford HAI" is correct; "Leaves Google" is not right–I'm keeping my Google badge, but will spend most of my time at Stanford.

by norvig 5y ago

"Joins Stanford HAI" is correct; "Leaves Google" is not right–I'm keeping my Google badge, but will spend most of my time at Stanford.

peter_retief 5y ago

Nice Peter.

Alekhine 5y ago

One great reason to come to HN is that you can find a thread on any tech personality, and semi often they'll just show up in the comments.

agumonkey 5y ago
I almost answered "who are you to talk about P.N." to his own comment :cough:
de_nied 5y ago
We're quirky like that.
ngcc_hk 5y ago
After reading and running his code etc, it is a shock to see him turn up here.
- coliveira 5y ago
  Why, do you think he doesn't use the internet?

9387367 5y ago

> norvig.com is protected by Imunify360 > We have noticed an unusual activity from your IP and blocked access to this website.

jcims 5y ago

Hey Dr Norvig, really enjoyed your podcast episode with Lex Fridman a couple of years ago. Once you get settled in it would be great to hear an update with how its going, some color around the background and objectives of the program and maybe just riff on the subject for a bit. Thanks!

phreeza 5y ago
I think sadly Fridman has since left the path of conducting interesting interviews with accomplished AI researchers and now caters to a kind of vapid pseudo-philosophical TED-talk crowd.
- ta988 5y ago
  What interviews make you think that?
  - phreeza 5y ago
    There were several that gave me this impression but Eric Weinstein and one about UFOs (forgot the name of the interviewee) come to mind.
    - jcims 5y ago
      It's ok man, it's not a religion. You can skip those if you don't like them. He's also had James Gosling, Don Knuth (x2), James Keller (x2), Brian Kernighan and a bunch of other legends.
      - phreeza 5y ago
        You are right of course, but this whole phenomenon really rubs me the wrong way. There is a whole host of podcasts now that provide a large audience to borderline crackpots. I believe it actually pushes people who are maybe otherwise quite intelligent to adopt such theories, because of the large audience that can now be reached with such stuff. Another good example is Avi Loeb and the Alien-Omuamua theory, explained quite well here: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/o1dhlf/comment/h23caw4/ https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/o1dhlf/comm...

andyxor 5y ago

Big fan of your spellchecker

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nothrowaways 5y ago

A huge fan of those string algorithms and Those notebooks. Real craftsmanship.