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> When VLMs make errors, they don't make random mistakes. Instead, 75.70% of all errors are "bias-aligned" - meaning they give the expected answer based on prior knowledge rather t…

Datasets need to stop shipping with any training sets at all! And they should forbid anyone from using the test set to update the parameters of any model through their license. We …

I'm the lead author of the paper you cited. Glad you enjoyed our work :) Sure, you can break systems. That doesn't mean that they aren't useful! In many cases a system will see the…

> merely a student or professor, but can get a job at or create their own a startup or big company or meaningful open source project of their own. Hey! Professors do meaningful thi…

Years ago we had a lot of good problems. Not just 2006, but 2007 was great too where you had secret messages to save Endo. 2008 at least had you doing some fun things with the rove…

There's so much wrong with this. HIPAA doesn't talk about US citizens or distinguish different types of records based on any properties of the people that those records cover. The …

If you use lens as just a way to access records like you do in other languages, then there is absolutely nothing hard about it. Literally all you need to know is: Name your records…

There's a control group. Both groups were watched by the experimenters. Not only that, the same teachers had students in both groups in different classes.

This is a huge problem throughout science, not just ML. As scientists, we're rewarded for publishing cool new things that work, not for pointing out things that don't or for pointi…

I agree, they should do one or the other. The imbalance is totally artificial and objectionable though. Where's the evidence that doctors see a 80/20 split in real life? If there i…

I do research in computer vision and this paper is so bad it's beyond words. * They give the network is huge advantage: they teach it that it should say "no" 80% of the time. The t…

That's a common misconception. She did not do jail time for insider trading. She almost certainly would have gotten away with it. The problem is she lied to a federal agent while t…

In terms of immigrants as a percentage of population the US is nothing special. Canada has a lot more (closer to 19% instead of 14%). Many European countries have statistics simila…