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That lead quote is highly ironic considering that MSR employs arguably the most talented collection of mathematical probabilists anywhere in the world (includin
by hyperbovine 12y ago
That lead quote is highly ironic considering that MSR employs arguably the most talented collection of mathematical probabilists anywhere in the world (including academia).
- long 12y agoI understood the lead quote to be about comparing the software developers at the two companies, not people in the research arms. Also, I'm curious: who are the top-notch probabilists at MSR?
- ihm 12y agoI think Itai Benjamini is at MSR. http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~itai/ http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~itai/
- hueving 12y agoThe quote is about general engineering of the companies. MSR is very detached from the products (e.g. I've seen research from them based on Firefox).