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Re:Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice by amelius on Thursday August 24, 2017 @10:44AM (#15090478)
It's a quite unattractive proposition for ML researchers to work for a company without being able to publish.

I'm guessing Apple simply had to make this change in order to stay in the game.

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Re:Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice by DonaldPShimoda on Thursday August 24, 2017 @05:06PM (#15094066)
There was a lot of internal pushing for publication, apparently. But Apple decided they don't want individual engineers to get credits for ML work that whole teams are working on, so they came up with their ML blog to post papers without individual credit. At least, that's how it was explained by some of the ML researchers to this year's summer intern class.
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Re:Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice by amelius on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:21PM (#15094567)
Why not credit the whole team then, by making them all authors?

Did you ever see the list of authors on publications of CERN? Or take this example: [1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/news/physics-paper-sets-record-with-m...

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Re:Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice by DonaldPShimoda on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:44PM (#15095052)
Right, I totally agree with you! That's just how it was explained a couple months ago. shrug
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