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Inside: A machine learning wrecking ball; Nintendo vs Nintendees; and more!

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A machine learning wrecking ball: Even if you fix training data, you still have to reckon with underspecification.



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21 Nov
Super Smash Bros. Melee is a 20-year-old Nintendo game with a huge cult following; it's considered one of the best fighting games of all time. Nintendo abandoned it years ago, but the fans have kept it alive.

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Fans used Dolphin (an emulation environment that can simulate the Gamecube and Wii) and mods from Slippi that let users play head-to-head over the internet. This combo has enabled many gamers to turn pro, winning esports contracts.

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21 Nov
"Underspecification Presents Challenges for Credibility in Modern Machine Learning" is a new ML paper co-authored by 33 (!) Google researchers. It's been called a "wrecking ball" for our understanding of problems in machine learning.

arxiv.org/pdf/2011.03395…

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There's been a lot of work on the problems of inadequate, low-quality, biased or poorly labeled training date in machine learning classifiers ("garbage in, garbage out"), but that's not what these researchers are documenting.

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They're focused on "underspecification," a well-known statistical phenomenon that has not been at the center of machine learning analysis (until now).

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Little Revolutions: Bethany C Morrow and Tochi Onyebuchi on the Attack Surface Lectures.



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Russian Cyberpunk Farm: Superb comedy-dystopia in a russo-futuristic vein.



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