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"Amazon representatives were invited to attend an employment committee hearing on "Working Conditions in Amazon Warehouses" on Jan. 23, but did not show up, claiming that the notic…

It boils down to - Labor relations (unions in Arizona pushed back agains Taiwanese workers build the factory) - Local partners (Denso/Sony and Toyota investing in Japanese project,…

Anecdotal evidence from France and UK doesn't agree with "isn't generally true outside of the US". When a diverse group of people is involved it's way more likely to use WhatsApp (…

It's not a great piece from FT. It argues that "the root of maths chauvinism is a childlike craving for certainties, or at least probabilities, amid the flux of adult experience", …

Very interesting examples. For Nash, Von Neumann contributions to the field were orders of magnitude more important. For Kahneman and Tversky let's not forget that the foundations …

She wrote a paper on blind auditions, this gained a lot of media attention, but as a lot of her work it was quite exaggerated see e.g [0] [0] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu…

At first I was surprised the economist would talk about the networking stack, but this is about social networking. The introverts bit makes much more sense. Regarding the article i…

There's been a lot of community backlash in Pokemon Go (#HearUsNiantic Niantic movement)and the game director response to it was that the company has “no plans to directly address …

It's all WebKit on iOS and iPadOS

It's just The Times, not "The Times of London" The Times != The New York Times

Looks really good! Maybe add in the title that it's MacOS only for now. There's options for local and cloud-based AI - which is nice. I'd be cool to see what's the compute cost of …

Is it true though? Doesn't seem to be the case for healthcare outcomes [0], vacation time [1], labor rights, parental leave, etc. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33369633/ [1] …

Well, it's a great example as Dr. Earl Haas patented the first tampons in the early 30s and nobody cared. He then sold the patent to a business woman that made it successful. So ef…

"Funding/Support: This study was partly funded by the CCSA as a subcontract for a Health Canada grant to develop guidance for Canadians on alcohol and health." BUT "Conflict of Int…

> "Of course adding poison to your body is unhealthy and will affect mortality." This is in contradiction with the basic principle of toxicology: "dosis sola facit venenum". A "sys…

In the case of municipal broadband it mostly comes from communities that suffer form poor/no investment from the big players and is the only recourse for decent internet. It usuall…

> study that isn't peer reviewed Terrier, C., 2020. Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect student achievement. Economics of Education Review, 77, p.101981. "Economics…

It's also important to note that they work despite being wide, you can see that with the efficiency of pruning, and ideas such as the lottery ticket hypothesis that state that "suc…

Whilst I agree with the general sentiment, in this particular instance it has to do with the depth of network that could be trained efficiently thanks to hardware advances. LeNet w…

The dichotomy between Greenwald's complaints (censorship of his article despite contractual guarantees, Reality Winner cover-up, what editors forced Lee Fang to do, lack of reporti…

Full disclosure, European here and in our team everyone is found of Linux so not representative of your average MLEngineer. We actually had more issues with nvidia drivers messing …

It's not just CUDA vs ROCm, ROCm has come a long way and is pretty compelling right now. What they lack is the proper hardware acceleration (e.g tensor cores).

Links to avoid verizon's obnoxious "policy-wall": - https://outline.com/XZYvKa - https://web.archive.org/web/20201026181132/https://techcrunc... (seems to successfully load then fa…