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New comment by thebladerunner in "FNet: Attention may be all you WANT but we you need is good token mixing"

thebladerunner — Tue, 18 May 2021 00:54:08 +0000

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/ncdy6m/r_g...

New comment by thebladerunner in "FNet: Attention may be all you WANT but we you need is good token mixing"

thebladerunner — Tue, 18 May 2021 00:47:08 +0000

This paper has been making rounds in the last few days on Reddit ML and Twitter.

New comment by thebladerunner in "Coca-Cola says 'Be Less White' learning plan was about workplace inclusion"

thebladerunner — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:08:29 +0000

Most certainly.

New comment by thebladerunner in "Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store"

thebladerunner — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 04:50:53 +0000

Are you saying that not using Google search has improved your quality of life?

New comment by thebladerunner in "AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google"

thebladerunner — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:29:27 +0000

Because (a) by the rules of engagement, management is not required to share original feedback, and (b) the original feedback could be used to identify the sources. In this case, there might have been a real risk to the sources given the individual in question is known to mobilize internal and external forces like Twitter mobs to personally attack people and bully them into submission.

New comment by thebladerunner in "AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google"

thebladerunner — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:16:48 +0000

To clarify, the first paragraph of defertoreotar@'s comment is a quote from Timnit Gebru's tweet where she admits to recently conspiring a legal battle against Google, while on Google's payroll. A wolf in sheep's clothing...

New comment by thebladerunner in "Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google"

thebladerunner — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 08:14:19 +0000

She has been advancing her agenda for a while by strategically picking fights, and winning them because she's been on the right side of a political wave and knew how to ride it. Then she got blinded by her own success and overplayed her hand, a classic cautionary tale. Fun fact: many people, not necessarily managers, won't be shedding tears seeing her go.

New comment by thebladerunner in "San Francisco apartment rent prices are dropping fast"

thebladerunner — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:04:12 +0000

People are moving out the city (or getting second homes) - that is exactly the trend you are seeing. The urbanization tide has reversed. For how long? Who knows...

New comment by thebladerunner in "I Am Deleting the Blog"

thebladerunner — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 07:04:32 +0000

Very well articulated, thank you!

New comment by thebladerunner in "Dream Homes from the Past Century"

thebladerunner — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 03:15:21 +0000

My thoughts exactly.

New comment by thebladerunner in "A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression"

thebladerunner — Wed, 27 May 2020 07:28:15 +0000

Re: YouTube video you linked below. The table shown by that Dr in the first few minutes was enough to discredit her (claiming Covid-19 is not transmitted by air, only kills 80+ year olds, etc.) All falsehoods.

New comment by thebladerunner in "A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression"

thebladerunner — Wed, 27 May 2020 07:21:19 +0000

To add to the confusion, the CDC website is calling this number CFR (not IFR), which doesn't make sense to me at all.

New comment by thebladerunner in "A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression"

thebladerunner — Wed, 27 May 2020 07:14:44 +0000

Links?

New comment by thebladerunner in "Andreessen Horowitz Returns Slip, According to Internal Data"

thebladerunner — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 04:13:44 +0000

Is there a fund that is better than 5x in aggregate? Everybody flaunts their unicorns, but at the end, those bets are balanced by many more losing bets...

New comment by thebladerunner in "The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos"

thebladerunner — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:32:04 +0000

Technical aspects aside, this post is in a really bad taste.

Next time you're itching to show off your chops, maybe pick a project that does not involve airbrushing people somehow deemed unworthy of being remembered, based on their looks?

During world war II, the Nazis had the laborious task of detecting Jews among the occupied populations, at scale. Is that also a task worthy of being automated and then writing a post about it?

New comment by thebladerunner in "Business networking is overrated (2017)"

thebladerunner — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 06:41:10 +0000

How about making friends instead?

New comment by thebladerunner in "Business networking is overrated (2017)"

thebladerunner — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 06:39:47 +0000

Duh!

New comment by thebladerunner in "Kite raises $17M for its ML-powered IDE"

thebladerunner — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 23:16:16 +0000

The demo looks neat, but the idea is not new. How does it compare to competition.

New comment by thebladerunner in "Success factors in Kaggle competitions: a visual analysis"

thebladerunner — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:47:09 +0000

So bigger teams have a higher chance of success? Who would have thought of that!?

New comment by thebladerunner in "Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially (2015)"

thebladerunner — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 18:32:01 +0000

Please do share your story! We need to understand your situation first. I'd suggest a separate post but also link it here.