I am not surprised at cluelessness of young #DeepLearning researchers given their leader is a dogmatic bully. Bayesian methods will be increasingly important as safety-critical applications like #SelfDriving and #healthcare deploy #AI. @andrewgwils has a great threadhttps://twitter.com/andrewgwils/status/1210354001041969152 …
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@carlesgelada and he is one of the most open-minded, least dogma-driven researchers I know. We have been thinking hard about safety, and it's for exactly that reason that we are critical of Bayesian NNs. 1/3
Calling an entire area useless is the opposite of open minded outlook and very definition of dogma. Provocation can start interesting discussions but it's wrong way to have a discourse.
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Carles's tweets were quite measured & non-provocative. He did not say BNNs were "useless" -- he said "makes no sense", a clear invitation for people to explain & inform. Later on in the thread, he even explicitly gives examples where BNNs may be useful (though he is bearish).
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Twitter makes it hard to infer tone and intentions. In any case "makes no sense" is still negative. Instead he could have explicitly said he would like to learn more about it. Instead he himself called it controversial. A clear attempt at provocation
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So you objected over the tone of my tweet and decided to respond by personally calling me clueless and accusing me of following a dogmatic bully? That makes sense. Also, for the record, I didn't say anything was useless. In fact I explained the uses I saw for BNNs.
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I am convinced that the nature of social media causes enmity even when there is none to begin with. Short tweets makes it hard to have nuanced arguments. Unfortunately this has become medium of choice for scientific discourse. How do we fix this?
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Carles's thread was a stellar example of good scientific discourse, as evidenced by the resulting discussion, from which I learned a ton. I feel that your response stifles our ability to ask questions to learn & makes good discussion less likely to appear in the future.
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