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by lordswork 635 days ago
Some interesting context on this work: 2 researchers were bullied to the point of leaving Google for Anthropic by a senior researcher (who has now been terminated himself): https://www.wired.com/story/google-brain-ai-researcher-fired...

They must feel vindicated by their work turning out to be so fruitful now.

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Vindicated indeed. The senior researcher and others on the project were bullied for raising concerns of fraud by the two researchers [1]. They filed a lawsuit against Google that has a lot of detailed allegations of fraud [2].

[1] https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/03/27/google_ai_chip_pa...

[2] https://regmedia.co.uk/2023/03/26/satrajit_vs_google.pdf

You are now using multiple new accounts based on the name of one of the authors (Anna Goldie) and her husband (Gabriel). First this one ('gabegobblegoldi'), and then 'anna-gabriella'.

I think it is time for you to take a deep breath and think about what you are doing and why.

You seem to be obsessed with the idea that this work is overrated. MediaTek and Google don't think so, and use it in production for their chips, including TPU, Dimensity, Axion, and others. If you're right and they're wrong, using this method loses them money. If it's the other way around, then using this method makes them gain money.

Please read PG's post and ask yourself if it applies to you: https://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html

Chatterjee settled his case. He has moved on. This is not some product being sold -- it is a free, open-source tool. People who see value in it use it; others don't, and so they don't. This is how it always works, and it's fine.

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It's actually not clear who was bullied. The two researchers ganged up on Chatterjee and got him fired because he used the word "fraud" - wrongful termination of a whistleblower. Only recently Google settled with Chatterjee for an undisclosed amount.