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whatrusmoking | 8 years ago | on: Contra Grant On Exaggerated Differences

If this makes sense to you, you haven't actually talked to women in this field who trust you.

Scott has a bad habit of setting up bad strawmen and doing literature reviews without talking to domain experts.

(Frankly the weakness of the arguments he's choosing to debunk make me doubt that he even engaged in this topic with good faith. If you think the opposing view point is summarized by ' "And everyone says “Aha! I bet it’s because of negative stereotypes!” ', then you're not serious about this conversation.)

whatrusmoking | 8 years ago | on: Transitioning entirely to neural machine translation

??? Google's been doing this at scale for a while.

whatrusmoking | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What books are you currently reading?

I figure this is a bit of an usual selection for HN, but here's the top of my in-progress list:

Moral Boundaries -- Joan Tronso

Known and Strange Things -- Teju Cole

The Feeling of What Happens -- Antonio Damasio

The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems -- Kofi Awoonor

And I just started Neil Gaiman's "Sandman".

whatrusmoking | 8 years ago | on: Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm

huh? https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15609844/waymo-google-sel...

https://www.slashgear.com/waymo-launches-early-rider-beta-pr...

They're easily 5 years ahead of the competition.