hgial

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   by hgial 5y ago

   Everyone here seems to be certain the pandemic will have huge and lasting effects on educational outcomes for kids. I would instead bet that while there will be effects in the short term, these effects will mostly fade within a few years (p
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   by hgial 5y ago

   Forgive me if I don't consider "you can tell someone's race from physical features" to be quite as extraordinary a result as "particles can travel faster than light".
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   by hgial 5y ago

   It's not "conspicuously absent from the paper". They have a whole group of experiments on this: "Experiments on anatomic and phenotype confounders" and conclude "Race detection is not due to obvious anatomic an
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   by hgial 5y ago

   It might be helpful for folks to look at the blog post written by one of the authors: https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2021/08/02/ai-has-the... or the paper itself https://arxiv.org/pdf&
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   by hgial 5y ago

   At the moment crowd-sourcing ML training doesn't work very well because updates to the model's weights have to be shared between all of the nodes in the computation periodically. Giant models tend to be trained on clusters with ve