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Even more hilarious given their own charter: > We will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to ac…

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My point is not that this work is flawed, or that there should not be an article reporting on this research or the topic of interviewing. Rather, I think it'd be better for a third…

Sorry I was not more clear. What I meant was that the NY Times employs journalists and fact checkers and editors to validate stories, say on politics to make sure, to the best of t…

I find it quite problematic that researchers get to talk about their own research and present it as facts without anyone taking a critical look. Over time I’ve become more skeptica…

One quick comment: in general it is a bad idea to compute the inverse of a matrix (to solve a linear system). It's much better to compute the QR factorization or SVD instead (or si…

Funny how Google is paying for data

This short course is taught every quarter at Stanford, usually by a PhD student in ICME (Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering). This is the course page for the …

In short: For a voting system (ranking of some candidates based on preferences of voters), it would be nice if: - A single voter cannot determine the ranking (as a dictator) - For …