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it wasn't a swipe, compressed? yes. It IS the main reason why this paper is getting more air than the work of hundreds of other machine learning papres int he s
by tlarkworthy 13y ago
it wasn't a swipe, compressed? yes. It IS the main reason why this paper is getting more air than the work of hundreds of other machine learning papres int he same league. It was not meant in malice, just a plain ordinary fact.
I thought arguing it has a was a average contribution would be more snidy. It's perfectly good work, just not in the same league as map-reduce or self-driving cars.
- ColinWright 13y agoI really wish you'd said in the first instance that it appeared that the paper wasn't really saying anything new, and left out the implication that it's getting more air purely because it's from Google. Not least, you might be wrong. It might be getting more air not because it's from Google, but simply because it has more visibilty in general. My feeling is that other, perhaps more scholarly, and perhaps more in-depth articles don't see the light of day simply because they are in more obscure places. You can help by pointing at other sources of similar material, and explaining why they are potentially of more value. A single line of "It's by a Googler" was unenlightening, and to me came off as pure snark.
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