so many science guys I’ve never given a shit about suddenly rose to prominence by saying the least hinged AI booster shit

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and other AI boosters would always go “yeah that’s Robert `Research` Scienceovsky he’s a premier AI researcher I’ve followed for years” and I’m like who in the fuck

and then you look them up and it’s always Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Google. papers: Facial Recognition Algorithm for IDing Protestors, Ad Tracking Outcomes with Sentiment Analysis and I’m like uh huh

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I can believe Robert “Research” Scienceovsky has done this

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there is no evidence that Robert “Research” Scienceovsky was on Epstein’s island for any reason other than to give the world’s least attended TED talk

JP

@zzt ah yes, the "best and the brightest" i hear people talk so much about.
(i personally loathe that phrase when it's used to plead for expensively educated employees of ffffucking advertising companies)

Jeremy Kahn

@zzt @jplebreton

Am pretty sure I met Bob Scienceovsky at an ML conference when we were both in grad school

JP

@zzt "you think the metaverse is going to fail!? but look at how many phds they have working for them!!" yeah well they went to work for mark zuckerberg so how fuckin smart are they really

Jeremy Kahn

@zzt @jplebreton as a fellow phd-haver I can attest that phds ain't all that.

Jeremy Kahn

@zzt @jplebreton ... at the time he (almost always a "he") was just a nerd who was pretty good at matrix mathematics, mediocre at Python, and kept showing up at conferences about theory and talking about how great it was that theory doesn't matter any more