alexmlamb2

Yeah I'm sure they felled that way here.

He's been an AI researcher for a while. I think his biggest contribution is understanding the vanishing gradient problem and creating the LSTM architecture. LSTMs are widely used in both industry and academia, and many neural net architectures that aren't LSTMs are heavily inspired by the LSTM idea.

One of his students, Alex Graves, is a researcher at DeepMind who is seen as one of the top people in RNNs.

Perhaps there does need to be some kind of flexibility for people who are not native English speakers. For example, a very high math score should be able to compensate for low verbal scores.

Using degrees seems like the worst possible option, since the standards are so low these days, and the trend is for the standards to go even lower.

But I don't see what's bad about this. Amazon is open about how small the prize and presumably that will mean that anyone who has a shot at making a dialog startup won't participate.

So Amazon will probably get a lot of entries from groups that are sort of borderline, which isn't necessarily the worst thing in the world.