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The comment section at the bottom of the article is pretty interesting. 20 years of people thinking about this.

Misinformation generation as a service. Is there any thinkable use case for this that isn't destructive for society?

I basically share your sentiment. However, Greg Yangs work seems to have produced something of direct practical benefit for training large neural nets, based on the NTK literature.…

Yes, it was. From their site: "It has been trained on a selection of English language and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitH…

Note: Ian Linkletter, the one who had spent 100k in april, is not the guy being backed by EFF. Linkletter has a gofundme here: https://ca.gofundme.com/f/stand-against-proctorio I'v…

I think they would in any case. My impression is that data is siloed internally at Google, and that data sharing between departments would be way more complex than just setting up …

Idea: We could stop using cryptocurrencies. Any downsides to that?

Daniel Lemire's blog is brilliant: https://lemire.me/blog/

Similar to how "god of the gaps" arguments work, there's a "god of complexity" phenomenon in tech, where people will project infinite possibilities onto technology they don't under…

Did you respond to right comment? You seem to be arguing against something that I'm not arguing for.

Well, this is the discussion I'd like to see. You have people born in the 90s hospitalized in Norway now. Many experience long term physical and cognitive effects. And as long as w…

I'm happy this research has been done so quickly, but am somewhat annoyed that the public conversation is so focused on whether or not the vaccine can possibly cause any problems, …

Lars from CatchJS here. Anyone can go on archive.org and verify that they changed their color scheme and header to ones very similar to CatchJS in Feb 2020, after CatchJS had used …

A middle ground could be nice: An IDE extension that notifies you when something you're writing will conflict in the future, should you and your coworker both commit and push what …

It really is a tiny subset of the C++ standard library, but I'm happy to see they're continuing to expand it: https://nvidia.github.io/libcudacxx/api.html

That somebody was George Clooney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa_HnP9TP5s

If you talk to Norwegians about Norwegians, you'll discover that we're very good at patting ourselves on the back. You might say that we're one of the best countries in the world w…

The problem isn't having an MBA though is it, it's (allegedly) not being competent enough in engineering. All the CEOs you mentioned have engineering degrees, while Intel's CEO doe…

That's an excellent example to show why statistical NLP outperforms discrete parsing using logical rules. That A1 and A2 means the same is something that is clear to us from the co…

The difficulty of the problem is that of a 50-way classification. If the only goal was to minimize WER, a simple post-processing step choosing the nearest sentence in the training …

This is cool. For those who are not super familiar with language processing, I think it's good to point out the limitations of what's been done here though. They mention that profe…