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Absolutely---it's a matter of degree, and judgments thereof are bound to be subjective. That said, I'd still claim that the EC community, broadly taken, appears particularly prone to tribalism. I'm far from a zealot on the "theoretical foun
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To disagree on a side issue, it's been a long time since NIPS dealt much with classic ANNs (which never had much to do with human brains, in any case). Most of the action there, as in AI and ML at large these days---eg, the focus also at IC
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... or they acquired a PhD. (in other words, exactly what you said)
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And another review in The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/apr/22/agora-review Good luck finding it in theatres, of course.
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"The skeptical and the secular also need stories of martyrdom..."(movies.nytimes.com)
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Bolden's speech yesterday is (IMO) worth reading, especially the middle section regarding Constellation: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/434022main_bolden_WSBR_20100316.pdf Note also the $6B increase in NASA's budget.
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(I made a similar comment regarding a previous article along these lines. The same point applies.) Even though the "United States gives up on space" narrative is temptingly simple, it's also (in my opinion) simply wrong, and substance-free
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Much of the gloomy commentary on this announcement, Cringely's included, is uninformed. (And statements like "NASA has had zero success in relying on outsourced systems" are just bizarre.) Canceling the Constellation program is a positive