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If these values really meant anything, then Anthropic should stop working with Palantir entirely given their work with ICE, domestic surveilance, and other objectionable activities…

PyTorch was partly inspired by the python Autograd library (circa 2015 [1]) to the point where they called their autodiff [2] system "autograd" [3]. Jax is the direct successor of …

Direct indexing is WAY more valuable to US citizens living in the EU than US citizens living in the USA because of the painful intersection of MiFID II rules and US tax law (PFIC t…

Igor Markov, along with Sat Chatterjee, seem to be pursuing a bizarre vendetta (after Sat failed to take over their project) against the lead authors of the chip placement work, no…

"The AlexNet paper is generally recognized as the paper that sparked the field of Deep Learning" Uh not really. That would have been "A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets…

Going from 25% top-one error to 22% top-one error is a massive jump on ImageNet and very meaningful in a lot of applications. That said, there is no reason to believe attention-bas…

Julia provides no meaningful advantages. PyTorch and JAX are too good. For typical deep learning workloads, Julia will not easily have a speed advantage. Everything goes down to th…

In some unit systems ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrized_unit_system ) they are both units of length.

Do you happen to have links to the papers? Edit: Looks like https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S17505... and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pi…

There are plenty of free, open access journals that are reputable. JMLR http://www.jmlr.org/ is quite successful. There are some fields, such as machine learning, that are not domi…

Execution quality matters and given enough order flow a they can still match client orders to make a profit without giving a worse price than NBBO.

The guide suggests gmail and two factor, but why not also https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/ ?

In 2009 NVIDIA wouldn't give Geoff Hinton's group the time of day, let alone a single free GPU to try out to see if they wanted to buy more. Geoff Hinton spoke at a NIPS keynote in…

This is more troubling given the author's support for eugenics.

I heard there were layoffs of engineers there. But obviously unrelated. OpenAI will continue unchanged.

I'm sure many AI experts at these places view it negatively. These are not monolithic organizations, but massive companies filled with real people with varying opinions.

The singularity cult is real. The geek rapture will occur when they blog about someone else making God in a Box hard enough to drown out the normal charlatans. Please fund their bl…

Not if you use Lyft.

Also perhaps machine learning experts are paid well enough in industry research labs in tech companies that the difference isn't perceived as that large given the diminishing margi…

How much do they pay? And how is the pay structured?

I would love to read an approach to effective political giving. Does anyone know of such a document? If the effective altruism movement had focussed on political action and donatio…

Jürgen maintains a lot of sock-puppet accounts (even on wikipedia and amazon reviews). Let's see if any of them show up in this thread. He is a perfectly good researcher and his st…

Who promised the renaissance?! We should put them in the stocks and throw overripe fruit at them!

It is probably hard for companies like skymind with no recognized experts. Getting a big name on board isn't always possible however. And investors are right to be leery given the …

Amusing trivia: Peter Brown, co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies, got his PhD under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton.