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“1M+ US households now using government benefits each month to buy groceries online. Their numbers spiked 50x this year after the spread of Covid-19 prompted the US Department of Agriculture to make it easier for food-stamp recipients to shop on the web. ” https://t.co/TTHx4RXy4Z
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Original tweet: https://twitter.com/giano/status/1327265261993463808

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Here another example of what happens when R&D (especially the one focused on #AI these days) is not lead by somebody intimately familiar with enterprises and their business and technical challenges.

From “Building an R&D strategy for modern times” https://t.co/GZXofonELs https://t.co/LYm6eIemTm

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Original tweet: https://twitter.com/giano/status/1327251717331816449

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“code alone is often not enough to rerun an experiment. Building AI models involves making many small changes…Without metadata describing how the models are trained and tuned, the code can be useless.”

#AI is wrestling with a replication crisis https://t.co/1zHpf4lqgF

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Original tweet: https://twitter.com/giano/status/1327250156660658182