Sam Thomson

@sammthomson

PhD student . nlp, machine learning, jazz, piano, poker, ...

Seattle, WA
Joined September 2008
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    15 hours ago

    Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?

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    Jan 27

    Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion

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    Jan 26

    A game's name can now affect its players' estimated "threat level" if the police show up

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  4. Jan 22

    just saw 30 lightning talks of all the fun nlp work being done at UW. Lot of really creative ideas

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    Jan 22

    "Why do these neo-Nazis keep showing up in my re-tweets?" A genuine 2016 political problem.

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    Jan 22 Albuquerque, NM

    . So 'duplicitous customer service rep justifying misogyny' 'needn't be' negative either but here we are.

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    Jan 20

    I am doing an AMA right now on Reddit. So far, there is only one question, which seems about right:

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    Jan 20

    Nice to see decoupling their data set hosting from their contests:

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    Jan 17

    Progress in deep learning may not represent significant progress towards general AI

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    Jan 16

    please never make an overloaded function /behave entirely differently/ with different types

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    30 Dec 2015

    Nice things to do for your friends who just became new parents:

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    27 Dec 2015

    Springer has made a lot of my favorite math books available online, for free! Everything that is 10 years old. o_O

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    18 Dec 2015

    Human-level concept learning through probabilistic program induction | | On github

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    16 Dec 2015

    Appreciating 's BookNLP. Extracts information about characters *quickly*, which is a real help rn.

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    15 Dec 2015

    Counterexamples of common type classes by . I've spent so much time googling for exactly this!

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    14 Dec 2015

    Don't confuse familiarity with simplicity. Scary things you don't yet know are sometimes far simpler than the hard things you already know.

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    11 Dec 2015

    How?

    I promise at the end of my first term we won't have more people in jail than in any other country.
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    8 Dec 2015

    What happened to America? The 2 leading presidential candidates mock "free speech" in public the same week?

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    4 Dec 2015

    This anonymous piece about serving on the jury of a murder trial is fucking phenomenal.

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    • Katherine Ye
      @hypotext

      the secure transport of light

    • SuperCynthia
      @Super_Cynthia

      I love the fresh air and I hate the holes in my head.

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