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ben_mann··on The Criminal Underworld Is Dropping Bitcoin for Monero
Tldr: Monero
ben_mann··on Facebook is building brain-computer interfaces for typing and skin-hearing
Not clear how they will make a non invasive optical brain interface...
ben_mann··on Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-Of-Experts Layer
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.

ben_mann··on Lyft Loses $600M in 2016 as Revenue Rises to $700M
Waze.com/carpool
ben_mann··on Google Brain Residency Program – 7 months in and looking ahead
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