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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Navin Kabra‏ @ngkabra 19 Jun 2019
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      Navin Kabra Retweeted Jean-François Bonnefon

      The age of algorithms taking over (badly) is beginning. Thread:https://twitter.com/JFBonnefon/status/1140946785474633729 …

      Navin Kabra added,

      Jean-François Bonnefon @JFBonnefon
      It's a big day today: I had a scientific manuscript rejected by a robot. Thread. The bot detected ❝a high level of textual overlap with previous literature❞. In other words, plagiarism. 1/6
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      1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
    2. Navin Kabra‏ @ngkabra 25 Jun 2019
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      Navin Kabra Retweeted Elliot Turner

      For all those who think machine learning is easy/cheap, please note the costs of training a deep learning networkhttps://twitter.com/eturner303/status/1143174828804857856 …

      Navin Kabra added,

      Elliot Turner @eturner303
      Holy crap: It costs $245,000 to train the XLNet model (the one that's beating BERT on NLP tasks..512 TPU v3 chips * 2.5 days * $8 a TPU) - https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08237  pic.twitter.com/hvvB2C4oSN
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    3. Navin Kabra‏ @ngkabra 1 Jul 2019
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      As the US Supreme Court indicates that access to mobile phone records requires warrants, @hare_brain asks this question: do we want our phones to have greater protections than our faces? In this week's @exponentialview newsletter dedicated to #surveillance #biometrics

      1 reply 3 retweets 2 likes
    4. Navin Kabra‏ @ngkabra 10 Jul 2019
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      Navin Kabra Retweeted Sarah Cooper

      “Software engineers with no people skills are teaching our future robots people skills”https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1148682364006146049 …

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      Sarah CooperVerified account @sarahcpr
      Is anyone else worried that software engineers with no people skills are teaching our future robots people skills
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    5. Navin Kabra‏ @ngkabra 16 Aug 2019
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      Navin Kabra Retweeted Dan Luu

      Beware: 90% of AI/ML today is in this category, where "seed is also a hyper-parameter"https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1162139780299145216 …

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      Twitter won't allow a quote this long, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20709020 for the full comment and response.
      Dan Luu @danluu
      "actually the seed is also a hyper-parameter" pic.twitter.com/KJ9YxL92Gz
      2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
    6. Navin Kabra‏ @ngkabra 16 Aug 2019
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      Navin Kabra Retweeted Subrahmanyam KVJ

      What?! This dress tricks the AI into believing that you are a car!https://twitter.com/SuB8u/status/1162195720100651008 …

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      Subrahmanyam KVJVerified account @SuB8u
      Replying to @SuB8u
      Love this. Adversarial fashion is here. Clothing that tricks surveillance algorithms into believing you are a car! https://www.cnet.com/news/anti-surveillance-clothes-foil-cameras-by-making-you-look-like-a-car/ … pic.twitter.com/hC606AWV6H
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    7. Navin Kabra‏ @ngkabra 22 Aug 2019
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      Navin Kabra Retweeted Ellie Murray

      Machine learning see, machine learning dohttps://twitter.com/EpiEllie/status/1164535006624194560 …

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      1:31
      Ellie MurrayVerified account @EpiEllie
      Beware causal inference with machine learning because the answer isn’t in the training data, and the algorithm can only learn what it sees. #causalinference #ML #AI pic.twitter.com/RruvFGTdHW
      2 replies 19 retweets 35 likes
    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Sep 2019
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      Wonder if this is normal for this age. She appears to be 3 maybe?

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    9. Navin Kabra‏ @ngkabra 21 Sep 2019
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      Calling in the expert. @docbhooshan is this kind of behavior typical at that age?

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Dr.Bhooshan Shukla MD डॉ. भूषण शुक्ल‏ @docbhooshan 21 Sep 2019
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      Question to ask is - does imitative behaviour ever end and people actually start thinking for themselves? Answer is no.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 Sep 2019
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      Rhetorical philosophical questions aside, what age do children develop enough other-mind modeling to grok the intent of the behavioral prompt/cue in cases like this?

      9:04 AM - 22 Sep 2019
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