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did nassim taleb really boast about deadlifting 400 lbs? That isn't very much for a deadlift if you lift consistently...

at the risk of offending NLPers/Vision/Speech I just think those tasks are 'easier' in a variety of ways.

I'm actually not familiar with this exam-I'll look into it!

myer briggs is basically meaningless

lol what-I was looking at this list of people who do this-in fact a lot of them ARE machine learning researchers...including some in my department!

Well the US is no longer part of the tpp.... In the counterfactual world where tpp is signed by the American president I think it would have quite potent https://www.google.com/amp…

I'm frustrated that is patentable

It was called the tpp...

and he finds this hard to believe after a power (russia) interfered massively in an american election? an in europe...

what is lecunn paid by FAIR? my roommate and I settled on 2-3 mil. thoughts?

Fantastic! I thought more about your question (at least what I thought it was) and it wouldn't necessarily prevent redundant encoding but it would sort of restrict how 'damaging' s…

I don't like this example-they could be a graduate student

I am going to assume by 'redundant encoding' you mean a model that takes some non-racial feature like- living in an urban area- and uses that to predict something that is very diff…

I think a great part is you can watch someone take a REAL potato with real dirt on it, clean it, cut it up with a massive guillotine thing, insert it into boiling oil, and hand it …

the whole point of the amazon bidding process is to induce competition between cities to give amazon exemptions and tax breaks-Philadelphia/Pennsylvania will probably benefit on th…

That is NOT a tax break....the immigrants and their families didn't spend years paying into the state tax base used to support the public university which the citizens presumably d…

Ah an interesting point about due process. I buy that. Yes journalist integrity is a good term that I feel captures the scope of what we would like to discuss. Side note watching t…

reading more of your comments I disagree with very little of what you said

edit: sorry if I wrote too much. I guess I got excited. Sure they predate #metoo but they are part of the same laudable impulse: to hold sexual predators accountable-often in the c…

welcome to America. This is why newspapers have legal departments. Personally, I'd rather have to worry about #fakenews and PR and spin rather than have to live in a where journali…

Are you asking for examples of the mob-like behavior? And lack of due process? Here are some: -Duke Lacrosse, Rolling Stone, Columbia-guy,... In the Lacrosse case there were legal …

In case the comment below is unclear-because you make sure everything you say is TRUE

Data point of 1: probably 70% of the people I match with on bumble initiate a conversation. I think I'm slightly above average in terms of attractiveness

Is this article paid advertising by Xiaomi? It feels very suspicious