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Re:The Criminal Underworld Is Dropping Bitcoin for Monero on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @01:15AM (#16058907)
Tldr: Monero
Not clear how they will make a non invasive optical brain interface...
Impressive! With this work they managed to increase quality for most language pairs while halving runtime computational cost and decreasing training time. Since it's a gerneric component, I can see it getting used on all sorts of problems with lots of data.

Especially interesting given that most Kaggle competitions are won with mixture of experts models.

Re:Lyft Loses $600M in 2016 as Revenue Rises to $700M on Sunday January 15, 2017 @12:21PM (#13405022)
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Summary: Google Brain team hired a bunch of 1-year residents to do research with them. They've published 21 papers already and are loving it. Apply for next year here: g.co/brainresidency