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by andyxor 6y ago
Gebru was fired for throwing tantrums and ultimatums to doxx her colleagues or she would resign, then blasting group email literally calling for sabotage. her colleagues were 'walking on eggshells' around her for the fear of retal
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Dr. Seuss books to stop being published because of “racist” imagery(foxnews.com)
2 points by andyxor 6y ago|0 comments
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by andyxor 6y ago
what does "alt-right" mean? is it the same as "alt-left" but with negative sign, like (-)AOC?
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by andyxor 6y ago
What bothers me more is his "restorative justice" policy where they put arrested criminals back to the streets to continue robbing and killing. Like that drunk driver who was arrested for DUI and car theft in December, quickly rel
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Family outraged over SF DA's description of 84-year-old Asian man's killer(abc7news.com)
3 points by andyxor 6y ago|1 comments
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An Introduction to Hierarchical Modeling(mfviz.com)
112 points by andyxor 6y ago|17 comments
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Geoffrey Hinton' new paper representing part-whole hierarchies in ANN(twitter.com)
3 points by andyxor 6y ago|0 comments
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by andyxor 6y ago
#BoycottCocaCola
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by andyxor 6y ago
Backprop requires global communication but biological brain works with local communication in neural assemblies, where signals spread in a way somewhat similar to diffusion. There is no global “teaching signal” or “delta rule” error correct
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by andyxor 6y ago
Jeff Hawkins has a great series of open workshops on computational cognitive models (with Marcus Lewis and the rest of Numenta team), check out Numenta on Twitter. This open seminar format is kind of unique in the industry. Recently they ta
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Billion-scale similarity search with GPUs (FB AI research, 2017)(arxiv.org)
1 points by andyxor 6y ago|0 comments
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by andyxor 6y ago
Also see this talk by Martin Klepmann on streams as materialized views: "Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza" (2015): https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-ou... previous dis
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by andyxor 6y ago
How is Google in the wrong exactly? Gebru was fired because she gave an ultimatum to her boss threatening to resign if they don't disclose names of all reviewers who criticized her work AND blasted group emails calling for sabotage ht
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by andyxor 6y ago
other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26198789
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by andyxor 6y ago
Gebru wasn't fired because she "cast Google in a bad light", she gave an ultimatum to her boss threatening to resign if they don't disclose names of all reviewers who criticized her work AND blasted group emails calling
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by andyxor 6y ago
no, she was locked out after extracting thousands of files illegally, see Google response from January: https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/google-targets-ai-ethics-...
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by andyxor 6y ago
Google response (from Jan): "Our security systems automatically lock an employee’s corporate account when they detect that the account is at risk of compromise due to credential problems or when an automated rule involving the handling
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by andyxor 6y ago
that's funny, I was just reading on "Hyperbolic geometry of the olfactory space", it maps nicely to hierarchical knowledge representation: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaaq1458 a
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by andyxor 6y ago
The DA, Chesa Boudin, put arrested criminals back on the streets with ultra-lenient policy, and this is the result https://abc7news.com/car-crash-san-francisco-lake-merced-sta... https://www.ktvu.com/news&#x
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by andyxor 6y ago
missing Popularity, Network Effects, Evangelism, Fashion, Trend, Marketing, Shoulders of Giants
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by andyxor 6y ago
It rubs the lotion on its skin
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by andyxor 6y ago
This was not done by people who make their living in markets
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by andyxor 6y ago
Calling all cops ‘racists’ indiscriminately and promoting an image of police as violent trigger-happy thugs who kill innocent black people is exactly what set the stage for violence. The aim of propaganda is to elicit an emotional reaction
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by andyxor 6y ago
That’s not a good enough reason to deplatform facebook or parler, to that matter. The summer riots were freely advertised on all social media apps and WaPo. How is that not incitement of violence. What’s happening is an unprecedented attack
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Elon Musk Rips Big Tech Censorship of Conservatives(twitter.com)
13 points by andyxor 6y ago|2 comments