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My take on Ali Rahimi's "Test of Time" award talk at NIPS.
Ali gave an entertaining and well-delivered talk. But I fundamentally disagree with the message.
The main message was, in essence, that the current practice in machine learning is akin to "alchemy" (his word).
It's insulting, yes. But never mind that: It's wrong!
Ali complained about the lack of (theoretical) understanding of many methods that are currently used in ML, particularly in deep learning.
Understanding (theoretical or otherwise) is a good thing. It's the very purpose of many of us in the NIPS community.
But another important goal is inventing new methods, new techniques, and yes, new tricks.
In the history of science and technology, the engineering artifacts have almost always preceded the theoretical understanding: the lens and the telescope preceded optics theory, the steam engine preceded thermodynamics, the airplane preceded flight aerodynamics, radio and data communication preceded information theory, the computer preceded computer sci

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export interface Item {
  task: string;
  priority: number;
}

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import React from "react";

export interface Item {
  task: string;
  priority: number;
}


const getTableStyleProps = (): {} => {
  return {

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import React from "react";
import { Item } from "./ToDoList";

const isValid = (item: Item): boolean => {
  return item.task !== "" && item.priority !== -1;
};

class AddItem extends React.Component<{ addItem: any }, Item> {
  constructor(props: any) {
    super(props);

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import React from "react";
import ToDoList, { Item } from "./ToDoList";

const initialList = [
  {
    task: "Pick up Milk",
    priority: 1,
  },
  {
    task: "Buy Eggs",

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import React from "react";
import AddItem from "./AddItem";
import ToDoList, { Item } from "./ToDoList";

const initialList = [
  {
    task: "Pick up Milk",
    priority: 1,
  },
  {

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import express from "express";

const app = express();
const port = 3000;
app.get("/", (req, res) => {
  res.send("You are listening from express server");
});

app.listen(port, (err) => {
  if (err) {

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import express from "express";
import { router as item_router } from "./items";

const app = express();
const port = 3000;

app.use("/tdsvc/item", item_router);

app.listen(port, (err?) => {
  if (err) {

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import { readFileSync, writeFileSync } from "fs";
import { item, user } from "./models";

const ITEMS_SOURCE = "data/items.json";
const USERS_SOURCE = "data/users.json";

const load_items = (): Array<item> => {
  const data = readFileSync(ITEMS_SOURCE, "utf-8");
  if (!data) {
    return [];

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import pg from "pg";

import { item, user } from "./models";
import { CONFIG } from "./pgenv";

const to_item = (itemRow: pg.QueryResult<any>): item => {
  return {
    id: parseInt(itemRow["id"]),
    task: itemRow["task"],
    priority: parseInt(itemRow["priority"]),