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LeCun: Simulating biological brain neurons to achieve AI is 'completely nuts'
“There are people out there in Europe that, that have argued for the fact to kind of study neurons and neurons and neural networks natural neural networks in all the details, and then build giant supercomputers to simulate this very accurately, and somehow they…”
LeCun: Building chips for spiking neural networks is misguided
“The problem is, from the engineering point of view, nobody has actually demonstrated that spiking neurons actually work. Like there is no image recognition systems that are based on spiking neural networks. Why build chips for something we don't know works? So…”
Sumo Logic is 'taking down Splunk hard'
“So, you know, we have one competitor out there. I'll name them. They're called Splunk. So if you're familiar with Splunk, we're taking them down, and we're taking them down hard, and they know it.”
Big data infrastructure startups launching in 2014 will lack successful exits
“If you're coming out as a Vertica today, you're not going to have a happy ending.”
Tech startup valuations in mid-2014 are unwarranted and unsustainable
“There's gonna be a lot of you know, broken hearts and tears are gonna fall, because I don't think that, that those valuations are warranted, are sustainable and that's too bad.”
Robbie Allen predicts data scientist roles will largely disappear by 2024
“In five to 10 years, the role, at least the role of data scientist or data engineer will largely go away, or mostly change, and it'll turn into programming systems like ours.”
Perlich: Industry bonuses encourage advertising professionals to ignore ad fraud
“I mean, there are so many people who are much better off looking the wrong way when it comes to fraud. Everybody's bonus just basically hinges on getting the wrong metrics a little bit up.”
O'Neil: Data science is a war of moneyed interests against vulnerable people
“I think of data science as And the general modelization of everything in sight, including education, including getting a job insurance, health, it's a war. And we're losing. Like we are, this is a war of the people who have money and can go hire data scientist…”
Ping Li: Incumbent enterprise tech vendors haven't innovated in a decade
“It's such a great time to be a startup right now because the incumbents are so far behind. They have not innovated, ah, in the last decade. And any of the big data dimensions are the applications, storage, the data layers.”
Lambert: Chinese companies with $1B+ valuations routinely pirate SaaS software
“Mediumly large, like billion dollar plus valuation companies in China will just like pirate SaaS software.”
Tworek: The landmark 2012 ImageNet AI results were not that significant
“From my perspective, and again, this is just how my brain works, that the 20 12 ImageNet results, like, weren't that significant.”
The San Francisco artificial intelligence ecosystem suffers from strong groupthink
“I think not a lot of people are saying it, but I think like SF has a really big group think.”
Mike Palmer requires all Sigma Computing employees to work in-office
“Even in face masks, I required everybody to come back to the office and I still require that today. Which is its own conversation, but I'm not a believer in remote work”
Mike Palmer: Forcing SQL concepts into natural language is engineering hubris
“So the idea that I'm supposed to adopt a SQL semantic concept into my natural language is the ultimate hubris of engineering.”
Glyman: Silicon Valley workers are mercenaries averaging 12-14 month tenures
“It's not like being in the valley where people are mercenaries. You know, I think the average career tenure is, you know, 1214 months.”
Kahn: Tech companies cannot be trusted to self-regulate AI
“I do not think that companies can be trusted really to do this completely on their own. I think there's just too much profit motive to take actions that ultimately will be kind of detrimental to us from a societal level or personal level.”
Mooney: A large part of tech wage gap stems from negotiation reluctance
“A large part of the reason the wage gap exists is that like women and minorities in technology are not not necessarily willing or confident to negotiate.”
Pesenti: General intelligence does not exist, as human intelligence is domain-specific
“Human intelligence is no, it's not general. It's actually very, very specific to our world. It's very biased. It's really customized to survival human in, on our planet. So the concept of general intelligence, I mean, yes, humans tend to have a more general in…”
Marcus: Deep learning fails at reading comprehension and misses the point
“I think that deep learning doesn't just fail on reading. It completely, entirely misses the point.”
Paul Dix: Nobody will ever make the Lisp programming language popular
“Lisp, we're not going to do because Paul Graham and Rich Hickey couldn't make Lisp popular, and neither will we. Nobody will.”
Enterprises suffer from internal fake news and alternative facts
“You have an alternative facts problem that exists inside of the enterprise with as much fake news, with as much lack of understanding, as you do in the public domain.”
Achin: Compliance is used to defend outdated, inaccurate regression models
“A word people use as a last resort to defend the status quo after they realize that their hundred variable regression model is an arbitrary representation of reality that is less accurate, robust, and interpretable than the modern, ah, alternatives.”
Shron: PhD hires in data science often act entitled about personal research
“I feel like the people who I've seen hired in as PhDs often have a sense of entitlement about their, how much they're going to have to be able to work on their own problems at the exclusion of the needs of the company.”