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If you’re just an end user and a non-engineer, how can you (1) universally judge the level of programming of data scientists to be (2) mediocre?

"There is huge genetic IQ gaps, lol. Some cats are so smart they blow your mind, others are mouth breathers. The normal distribution is real." I'm very curious about how well someo…

Intelligence is not well-defined even for humans, and we have little understanding of what goes on in an animal's "mind", yet people like you use terms like IQ for cats like they'r…

I don't know your situation but I while there are certainly ultra-competitive CS programs (e.g., Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, CMU), there are many research-focused universities in the …

Is it just me, or are the salaries much lower in UK than in US? Why?

Why not apply to PhD/MSc programs in the US? The PhD stipend is well above starvation levels and you can go to internships during summer to earn more money and accumulate experienc…

There is currently a hiring freeze at Meta for most positions but this rescinding case was mostly caused by visa lottery problems it seems like.

No.

Especially in biosciences. But it’s probably the case that the hardware that Apple produces don’t use fancier methods such as DL/RL that much and depend on more traditional methods…

No, especially in fields that have as much citations and papers on average as ML/DL/RL. If a paper in any other field was cited 44k in ~8 years, it must have made life-changing dis…

"ML is starting to fizzle out as a “savior” of the industry after lofty promises were never fulfilled." What? Siri, text completion, all the health- and activity-tracking features …

Wow, reading a few pages of mostly spiteful & angry (at Mr. Goodfellow) replies on macrumors.com was really eye-opening. Ordinary people seem to have no idea at all how much in-dem…

"The paper mentions 35 (!) manual restarts to train OPT-175B due to hardware failure (and 70+ automatic restarts)." https://twitter.com/awnihannun/status/1521572873449533440

Isn't there a tax deduction aspect to a lot of these donations? Anyways, 100 more Nature-level articles about climate change is not going to change the situation if there is no pol…

Ironically, I suspect a lot of them might end up in fossil fuel companies and do greenwashing R&D.

"If it's from Stanford, pretty much whatever you want." That not true at all. The name of the university can only get you so far. For example, if you have a climate-related degree,…

I have not had the time to read the paper and see how the authors address this, but the biggest flaw of this study is relying on subjective reports by the owners. Almost all dog ow…

" peer-reviewed long term study " This is not a silver bullet, even for recently published Nature/Science papers. You need to convince 3-4 people to get your paper published in the…

"There could be plenty of reasons why pitbulls feature highly in the dog attack stats (severity making attacks more noteworthy, type of owner increasing likelihood" Well, the sever…

But is writing a (somewhat pathetic) open letter really trying? Perhaps organizing a strike would convey more meaning, although I don't see that happening at all.

"The S&P 500 had record profitability during this completely unplanned WFH experience." Correlation != Causation

"They pay well because demand for engineers is high" Do they pay their teams in Canada, India, China, etc. as much as SV? No.

The method proposed in their Nature method may be very impactful, but the paper itself is nowhere near as rigorous as the other Nature papers I've read; it is written more like a w…