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by shraken 3526 days ago
I'm not involved in the machine vision field but I found his commitment to open and transparent academic publishing very admirable.

He published a paper with their summer intern here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.01230.pdf

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This is not peer-reviewed. This is a tech report. Anybody can post these.
Well, you usually need a university address or some endorsers to post to the arxiv, but true, most people could probably post that.

On the other hand, the arxiv is also the default method of communication in quite a few fields (physics and maths, mostly), to the point that while grant committees etc. look at your peer-reviewed papers, I essentially only check the arxiv for new developments, not the plethora of properly peer-reviewed journals.

I looked over that paper, and honestly it is nothing that impressive. Basically it just described applying off-the-shelf algorithms to a particular kind of data. It probably would be published and is interesting to look over, so I don't mean to deride the paper itself, but still it is just not that novel. Nothing about how their end-to-end self driving works or how it's better than the many competitors. So to me this was hugely underwhelming, really.
Also, the entire deep learning academia is already extremely open and transparent with publishing.