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LI2: Lego Institute for Lego Investigation

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A few of the images on this site make it clear that LI2 is fudging its diversity numbers. That's concerning; if I were Hogwarts or Stark Industries, I'd pull out of the partnership.

The diversity numbers are accurate. The numbers are for employees; some of the images depict non-employee visitors, some of whom are people of non-yellow color.

these fucking yellow nationalists

Peter Norvig has too much time on his hands!

Although the following is sadly too personally familiar

"The original proposal had several of the classic grant application mistakes. It was too ambitious, the investigators had few recent papers, they needed a more senior collaborator, and there was no preliminary data to demonstrate feasibility. In addition, it is well known that one does not simply walk into Mordor."

I don't get it, is this some sort of parody / satire?

It’s a jab at Paul Allen’s AI2 https://allenai.org

Do Paul Allen and Peter Norvig go way back?

I admire Oren, and AI2, and the other institutes mentioned in the Director's Statement. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Yes it is

If anybody has contact information for the principal researchers I would be very happy to donate some more processing power.

For newcomers who don't recognize jacquesm and why the idea of him donating Lego is ... interesting (in a scary way, depending on how much living space Mr Norvig has I guess), please see https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/.

At the moment I'm not seeing images on that page, but perhaps it's my problem.

> At the moment I'm not seeing images on that page, but perhaps it's my problem.

The images are broken because e.g. https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/... is actually at https://jacquesmattheij.com/IMG_0031.JPG

They just need a forward slash in <img src="IMG_0031.JPG"> to make the path root-relative.

Ai, thank you for pointing that out, I will fix it. That happened because of moving the blog around and re-installing the engine that generates it, apparently the image paths got messed up.

edit: ok, all images work again, apologies!

Not sure if the researchers' contact information is listed, but the director's email is at the bottom of the page.

The funding estimates seem a bit low. Lego projects can easily run into the billions of microdollars.

I love that this demonstrates the level of play Peter Norvig still brings to his life and work (also obvious if you read some of his blog posts).

I'm just highly amused that there is a little Lego Peter Norvig running around...

The bananas inspector seems very focused on his work

https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/Bananas_I...

Serious bussiness

Still a better website than many actual research institutes.

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