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That's not quite right. Salary bands tend to be guidelines, not constraints. And in ML there are plenty of people getting paid far out of band.

I assure you, people have pointed it out...

Thanks for sharing! Happy to discuss here if anyone wants to engage in some (pre)debate. Also happy to butt out :).

These are excellent questions. I often ask Google researchers, "How Deep is the Mind?" They don't seem to know. You see, it all comes down to democratizing the blockchain, and the …

Thanks for the interest in JnJ AGI Research! As inter-global head of research I'm happy to answer any questions the HN community may have!

Flag-planting is relevant because the practice of flag-planting (and other abuses of the pre-print) is what has prompted some of this over-reaction.

Author here: Grisha Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture has never been (by him, to my knowledge) submitted to or published in any journal. He decided, as is his right, that…

It's problematic that the "experts in AGI" are generally self-designated, and have mostly produced little that is concrete, either in the form of theory or engineering. We should b…

While I don't take exception with the word machine learning (it's reasonably well defined), I agree with most of the points here. Some are grossly exaggerated (e.g. needing petabyt…

As someone with an economics background (BA), and medical research career (concurrent with ML), I can say (subjectively), that this feels different.

I generally agree with this. I used machine learning almost exclusively in the article. Yet "AI misinformation" seems more appropriate in the title since the misinformation, genera…

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The performance improvement over

The performance of multilayer perceptrons and linear models is significant. The paper additionally allows the MLP and linear models to "cheat" by giving them heavily hand-engineere…

The two statements here may be factually true. 1) You had a hard time. 2) Your female classmates, all else being equal, did better. But there's something unsettling about the impli…

These are strong arguments. Unfortunately, while sometime interpretability addresses a fundamental (not frivolous concern), it's also true that often interpretability is sometimes …

I have good reason to believe the paper's author agrees with this argument.