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Good news for readers who prefer reputable ML papers: this work was accepted to ICLR 2023! https://openreview.net/forum?id=9XFSbDPmdW

(Disclaimer: I’m plugging my own work here ;-)) You might enjoy this project, which ties to do basically exactly what you described: stick everything in a database and let it drive…

Makes sense, especially the part about the "recipe" being more about organizational capacity than code. Do you think it's important for volunteers to live in the region that they'r…

This is amazing! Are you planning to roll this out to other states (that are also allowing vaccinations in the general public)? If not, what's the limiting factor? Can I help overc…

You're right the Record Layer doesn't yet have join support, but note PR #306 [1]. We support aggregate indexes but can't run aggregate “reports” that aren't backed by indexes. The…

The preprint of the paper is now up on arXiv.org: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04452

(I'm from the iCloud team that works on the Record Layer.) Both building a relational database and implementing a proper SQL interface on top of it are huge projects. The SQL spec …

I'm a friend and colleague of Michael's at MIT. This article is very nice and gives a good summary of what made Michael so special. In a lot of ways, Michael was the animating "spi…

Most of your feedback is perfectly fair. My algorithm was not meant for general search, not am I a "young genius" or anything of the sort. Similarly, techniques like tf-idf, latent…

You are correct. My algorithm is conceptually rather similar to a number of ones recently published. The work closest to mine in the literatures is [1], by Lafferty and Zhai at CMU…

Hi, this is Nicholas, a long time lurker on HN and the person in the video. I saw this thread during my morning commute to work (and was very surprised, to say the least!) and want…