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@manuelclopes That is way older: "Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise." by John Tuckey

In today’s facial recognition news; my Juneteenth getaway Airbnb was canceled bc they’re new facial rec tech could sufficiently match my profile pic to whatever govt. id database they’re using behind the scenes... Hotel it is then!

What are your tips for surviving grad school? We will share these with several grad students at #acl2020nlp. My tip: commit to making at least one line of progress (code, writing) every work day even on your bad days. #NLProc #AcademicChatter

Broader impact predictions back in the day.

I have an SVM joke but the margin is not large enough to write it down.

I wrote a blog post on how we can see policy gradient methods from an operators perspective, and how this provides us with an interpolation between REINFORCE and value-based methods. Blog post: mcmachado.info/?p=248 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2006.11266 @le_roux_nicolas Dibya Ghosh

People who think human-level AI is beyond reach overestimate human intelligence.

This is from November 2016. THE GOALS HAVE STAYED THE SAME!

Jon, I would love to hear your rational argument for this. Is it based on cost per user? What? My experience is that cars can cope with 3 cm of snow much much better than a bike can which is the main reason for prioritizing the bike lanes.

@akbarpour_ When I taught first year courses, it was very clear to me that a lot of the showmanship exhibited by first year grad students came from those who took the classes before, and this made other students feel inadequate. Important to warn students so they aren't discouraged!

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I agree with the claim that reward is overvalued but probably not for the reason intended here. Reward is overvalued because it is often misspecified: we have a bad habit of assuming we know how to define reward, when in fact this is often a tricky value alignment problem.

.Tony Zador since your post is making a resurgence... a video of an animal overcoming its innate drive to wash its food first... I’d call that an adaptive intelligent system :) youtube.com/watch?v=rfbb4y…

FOUR CARDINAL RULES OF STATISTICS 📈📊📉 A thread 1/🧵

Just discovered: the lost thesis of Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language & co-creator of Unix. Read it here: bit.ly/RitchiePhD Ritchie never got his PhD b/c he didn't want to pay Harvard the thesis binding fee. bit.ly/2GBr1Jm (v/IEEE Spectrum)

I regret not reading through the full LaTeX physics package earlier; so many more features than I realized. Many commands that I usually define by hand... e.g., some macros for partial derivatives: mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/macros/la…

Hey everyone, here's a thread about something that I've been working on that is FUN. We need a bit of fun in this dreary 2020! Covid-safe live Santa Claus visits on video. santahq.app 1/

Speaking of spying cameras, these photos here, taken in the streets of Oslo in the 1890s, come from one such camera hidden in the buttonhole of Carl Størmer, a 19-year-old student at the Royal Frederick University. He secretly took around 500 of these. Thread:

City-builders are not just found behind desks at city-hall. We are all involved in remaking, shaping, and sustaining our cities and I look forward to building a better future with you. Thank you to everyone who made this possible! Let’s get to work.