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That is a beautiful metaphor. Thank you!

This is nonsense; Travis employees are the polar opposite of "codebros". Lighthearted team profiles are absolutely not an insight into the employees' "mentality". If anything, your…

Yes, you're not alone. Oddly enough, it's been repurposed to mean something akin to value alignment or strategic cooperation. It used to mean thoughtful kindness, and this change s…

The line will be drawn between class boundaries.

Actually the new finding is similar to weight normalisation for individual neurons. LRN would be similar to another thing called lateral inhibition.

Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit, but puns sure are the puniest.

Looks like they want to avoid changing gameplay as much as possible. Considering their focus on preserving even minute details of game dynamics... I wish they'd made an exception f…

To be precise, there exists a subset of facts that supports a narrative of epistemological nihilism.

Rather common in Indian English from what I've seen.

I don't get it, wouldn't building this be pointless after the Sophon interference jinxed everything?

You raise a good point. My answer is: I understand the idea of doing probablistic inference about people based on their demeanor. We do it all the time with our minds, indeed many …

Some comments are focusing on this exacerbating aggregate phenomena like diversity stats and wage gaps. This is true and a huge negative. But that's not the only thing we should be…

I loved how in Arrival, they build a statistical model to map between concepts in the two languages, ostensibly via a joint embedding space. They don't elaborate on it in the movie…

True, but none of those fields have the same kind of "end of humanity" connotations attached, in the general psyche. Clarifications by well-known researchers don't travel as far an…

This stuff sounds funny now, and some of us grad students had a good laugh. But I am worried about the future of ML reporting. The "field" is growing fast and I think we don't have…

Don't ask people to prove a negative.

I would have been fine with Aadhar if - They didn't rely on fingerprints, as they are easy to fake, without a high degree of technical sophistication - There would not be an API fo…

I don't know what kind of world you live in, where you cannot believe that people can take a principled stand about a policy. Why can I not worry about my family's data being share…

> Finally any Indian in USA simply has no right to criticize Aadhar since the US Visa process requires biometrics from all visitors. This is BS because getting a visa is a consciou…

I disagree. Titles exist to provide an assurance to people that the services they get from title-holders will be above a certain standard, with the threat of a serious penalty if t…

For what it's worth, in Germany the title of Engineer is regulated and the correct term for those who write software (which goes in the contract) is "Software Entwickler" (Entwickl…

Don't worry, you're doing fine. There are a multitude of political opinions out there (which does not mean they are bad ideas), and a large number of people who like to criticize o…

Not everyone spends their time constantly thinking about the degree of unnecessary gendered-ness of every piece of information they encounter. Maybe you should stop shoving politic…

The point of my comment was that getting good testing is surely easier on humans than monkeys. Actually going in has to happen at some point - why not do this on humans that have v…

Computational Neuroscience student here. Research of this nature requires reading the electrical spike trains of small sets of neurons (often even individual cells). EEG will give …