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by timkam 5y ago
I agree. To me, the post reads a bit like this: "Back then, we did not have as much inequality, but the super-rich did not deserve their wealth. Now, we have more inequality, but the super-rich [like PG himself] really deserve it, beca
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by timkam 5y ago
Do you know whether Cree# is open source? Sorry if I missed this when reading the text too quickly, but I struggle to find more documentation or a code repository. I know some folks at my university who are working with indigenous languages
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by timkam 6y ago
I think the author is tearing down the brand rather than the person. And I think it's good. For sure, Hawking's individual productivity was limited in later years, as was his control of what would be associated with this name. For
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by timkam 6y ago
This is certainly important from a business perspective. For-profit publishing is a dead end. More and more venues are community-owned, and only the highest profile publications actually need the degree of professionalization that requires
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by timkam 6y ago
Sure, but I thought was that building an ML model that considers the questionnaire results (or existing similar findings) would be a very interesting next step.
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by timkam 6y ago
Now, what would be interesting is to build a model that accounts for this "knowledge" and see if it can beat the out-of-the-box classifier :-) I'd assume it can, and the question is: how far can a bit of manual modeling bring
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by timkam 6y ago
If the value of gold increased as rapidly as the value of bitcoin, and the value of all kind of "I pull a fictitious metal name out of the air and make it tradable" materials increased at a striking pace as well, we'd also sa
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by timkam 6y ago
The author is not precise here, but I agree that in the crypto-bro, get-rich-quick world, the meaning of "decentralized" and "blockchain" certainly can be stretched in all kinds of ways. And I think this relates to the p
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by timkam 6y ago
I don't think it's about whether Gebru "deserves" the credit, it's just a bad comparison on so many levels. Roughly like: "the transition from Ronaldo to Magnus Carlsen may be seen in the same way as we see the
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by timkam 6y ago
I still think this post is insightful, because it shows a subjective and presumably rather honest perspective on reviewing CVs. Sure, it's no big deal that a recent graduate points to an unmaintained GitHub profile with only assignment
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by timkam 6y ago
I largely agree with this comment, but this just means the underlying issues are more subtle. For example: * I typically get thoughtful reviews, and in particular critical reviews are often thoughtful. Still, I know that some people assert
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by timkam 6y ago
I think this topic is more about what should be the focus of discussion in the AI community. A key question is: to what extent do AI researchers need to consider ethics and how do they need to consider it? These are hard questions. People i
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by timkam 6y ago
I really don't get it. Nobody at an AI conference is alarmed at what they see in terms of AI research progress. Most well-educated people are alarmed about societal issues that _are also relevant to the application of automated decisio
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by timkam 6y ago
Private schools have more leverage on whom they will accept as pupils and hence can target an "easier to teach" part of the overall pupil population. To me the Swedish system is the worst of two worlds: in Germany, there are good
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by timkam 6y ago
Then don't take offense by the discussion here, because it's mostly on some "meta" aspects of science communication, and you are probably not responsible for any of the aspects that have been critizised. Regarding the re
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by timkam 6y ago
I think the vast majority of criticism here does not target the research per se, but rather the way the results are "hyped" and presented as a massive break-through. I agree with this criticism, and also think that the two positiv
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by timkam 6y ago
I agree. Without being an expert in the field, the 2nd and 3rd reviews "smell funny"; they clearly lack depth, are very enthusiastic, and don't seem to make a good and comprehensive point as to _why_ this paper is supposed to
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“Robotic Process Automation” vendor UIPath raises $750M at $35B valuation(techcrunch.com)
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by timkam 6y ago
> Even more with some irresponsible newspapers blaming the whole thing on GamerGate and Alt-Right, effectively pushing away people that previously could be on their side. I didn't read any such claim in my German and Scandinavian ne
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by timkam 6y ago
I agree with this concern. They collect a lot of data, sure, but they are also the only one who thinks that video is enough. It's a bold bet; intuitively, one would expect that video-only is good enough for gimmicks and fares worse whe
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by timkam 6y ago
I think this is very interesting but not too surprising. Until a couple of hundred years, many (if not most) educated people where closely associated with some form of organized religion, and the study of human behavior from both descriptiv
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by timkam 6y ago
By adding an author profile and a list of other Singularity Hub articles by the author, they make it look like the author is part of the Singularity Hub community, but the two articles that he has written are both from The Conversation.
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by timkam 6y ago
Thank you for clarifying, then the main issue comes with global scale (a point that one of the other comments here makes).
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by timkam 6y ago
I must say the Singularity Hub web presence looks snake-oily to me. Why do they call it a "university"? Why do they call some of the members "faculty"? Why do they claim Ray Kurzweil has "a thirty-year track record
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by timkam 6y ago
Self-citations are often hard to avoid (in particular in more formal academic writing, in which you want to establish the delta of your current work wrt. your previous works). It is striking, however, that the author exclusively cites him
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by timkam 6y ago
Sure, but my question is about the difference between Norway and Sweden. Sweden has (merely) twice the population size of Norway, is culturally similar, highly developed, has a similar political system etc, but still seems to fair far worse
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by timkam 6y ago
What I find striking are the reported recidivism rates of Sweden and Norway: 43% vs. 20% after 2 years. Sure, Norway is richer and socially/ethnically more homogeneous, but can this be the whole explanation for this extreme difference,
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by timkam 6y ago
I largely agree, but we do not write all these papers "so tax payers can sleep". We write these papers because the administration incentivizes us to get the highest profile publications with the lowest effort possible. In relative
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by timkam 6y ago
One can perhaps say: "A neural net is a collection of machine learning approaches that are somewhat inspired by the human brain. However, neural nets have little to do with how the brain actually works." I think this statement (or
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by timkam 6y ago
From a computer science perspective, this is an interesting piece. But from a practical perspective, I doubt that the Dijkstra of 1988 has a good understanding of the sociotechnical reality of the present day software industry. I comment (q

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