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by juanbyrge 1916 days ago
Declining a research award due to supporting a toxic employee with a long history of unnecessarily hostile and combative behavior (just look at the yann lecun twitter thread). Sounds fine to me!
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Can you link it? Googling it results in too many threads
This article has a summary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23696427

That’s not how I would interact with a Turing award winner. And it’s not the first time they have had that reaction.

From what I’ve observed it could be a classic case of borderline personality disorder. Generally polite and nice to people but when they get offended they go ballistic.