James Bradbury
Deep learning systems @GoogleAI. Previously @Salesforce Research, @Stanford Linguistics, @Caixin. Spends too much time reading about Things that are Happening.
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The New Outlaws of Conservative Media
The Bulwark is on a mission to name and shame President Trump's most high-status supporters.
The $15 Minimum Wage Doesn’t Just Improve Lives, It Saves Them
A living wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep aid. A diet. A stress reliever. It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy. It prevents premature death. It shields children from neglect.
How Amy Klobuchar Treats Her Staff
Interviews with more than two dozen former staff members and internal emails reviewed by The Times reveal demeaning and unusual behavior by Ms. Klobuchar toward her subordinates.
World Discovery with NDIGO-1 in a 2D maze
NDIGO-1 discovering its world. On the left-side the ground-truth top-down-view of the world is shown. On the right-side the predicted world view from the age...
World Discovery Models
As humans we are driven by a strong desire for seeking novelty in our world.
Also upon observing a novel pattern we are capable of refining our
understanding of the world based on the new information---humans can discover
their world. The...
Esclusivo - La trattativa segreta per finanziare con soldi russi la Lega di Matteo Salvini
Tre milioni di tonnellate di gasolio da vendere a un'azienda italiana: così il piano della Russia per sostenere i sovranisti alle prossime Europee si maschera da scambio commerciale. Il negoziato, condotto da un fedelissimo del vicepremier italiano,...
Philly DA Larry Krasner stopped seeking bail for low-level crimes. Here’s what happened next.
Philly DA Larry Krasner said his decision to stop seeking bail for certain crimes has been a major force driving a decline in the jail population.On Tuesday, Krasner will outline the impact of the reform.
Trump claims border wall is under construction 'right now' using fence repair footage from 5 months ago
This isn't really new wall construction at all, and certainly not "the wall" that Trump has been haggling with Congress over.
How Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis
In a deal that made few ripples outside the energy industry, two very large but relatively obscure companies, Rockwell Automation and Schlumberger Limited, announced a joint venture called Sensia. The new company will “sell equipment and services to...
Deposition: Sackler embraced plan to conceal OxyContin’s strength
The deposition, which Purdue long fought to keep secret, underscores the Sacklers' pivotal role in developing the marketing strategy for OxyContin.
The Obama Presidential Library That Isn’t
The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago won’t include a research library and archive. To some historians, that’s a problem.
Wide Neural Networks of Any Depth Evolve as Linear Models Under Gradient Descent
A longstanding goal in deep learning research has been to precisely
characterize training and generalization. However, the often complex loss
landscapes of neural networks have made a theory of learning dynamics elusive.
In this work, we show that...
Learning Latent Dynamics for Planning from Pixels
PlaNet solves control tasks from pixels by planning in latent space.
Introducing PlaNet: A Deep Planning Network for Reinforcement Learning
Posted by Danijar Hafner, Student Researcher, Google AI Research into how artificial agents can improve their decisions over time is prog...
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Deep Planning Network: Control from pixels by latent planning with learned dynamics - google-research/planet
Editorial: Silicon Valley's Minor Trumpists
The Bay Area’s status quo of exclusion is not a joke, and it’s time to get serious about ending it.
Pinterest cracks down on anti-vaxxers, pressuring Facebook to follow
Pinterest has taken the boldest step thus far among the largest tech giants in blocking bad health advice.
The Surprising Reason Zebras Have Stripes
By putting black-and-white coats on horses, a new study shows that the pattern discourages biting flies from landing.
Trump administration to cancel $929 million in California high-speed rail funding
The Trump administration vows to cancel $929 million in California high-speed rail funding.
CNN hires GOP operative with no journalism experience to run its 2020 coverage
Sarah Isgur once referred to her new employer as the "Clinton News Network."