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by oldgradstudent 1089 days ago
One is basically an evidence-free ad hominem attack.

> [2] https://twitter.com/JacobSteinhardt/status/15215993404137881...

The other two sources make a concrete claim that in mid-2002 there was an independent, open-source, replication of the Nature paper:

> [1] https://twitter.com/ZoubinGhahrama1/status/15122035096467415...

>> Google stands by this work published in Nature on ML for Chip Design, which has been independently replicated, open-sourced, and used in production at Google.

> [3] https://twitter.com/sguada/status/1521587406385807361

>> The results in the Nature paper were independently replicated and validated by my team, the results were used in actual chips and Sat and his collaborators know it.

>> Furthermore, the code was open-sourced.

>> It is sad that you are providing a platform for someone's resentments.

The claims about independent replication refer to Google's circuit_training repository[1]. The UCSD team has conclusively shown this claim was materially false (see section 3 of their paper[2]).

BTW, Prof. Andrew Khang, who headed the UCSD effort, initially wrote an exteremely favorable editorial about the Nature paper[3].

[1] https://github.com/google-research/circuit_training

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.11014.pdf

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01515-9