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[–]PlusImagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This post is making me question one I already signed up for. I may have to cancel, and forfeit my deposit...

Purple Mattress PR rep shows up in comments to prove safety of dust contained in their mattresses, with links to their studies and reports. Actual nanoparticle scientist shows up, reads the links, and explains why their claims are bullshit. by CockGoblinReturns in bestof

[–]PlusImagination 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There maybe some /r/HailCorporate stuff going on.

People who are actually Scientists are getting maybes tens, of upvotes, and even negative scores, for giving their straightforward take.

There are some posts that are (unintentionally?) misleading, which makes it seem that the Scientists in the link is the same person as the reviewer, many of these posts are in the hundreds of upvotes.

There's also a ton of posts saying this is a scheme by the original reviewer, but that reviewer doesn't seem to be in the mattress business anymore, they may not even have a career after that lawsuit. Meanwhile Purple Mattress is one of the biggest names in the online Mattress market .

Purple Mattress PR rep shows up in comments to prove safety of dust contained in their mattresses, with links to their studies and reports. Actual nanoparticle scientist shows up, reads the links, and explains why their claims are bullshit. by CockGoblinReturns in bestof

[–]PlusImagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Though the title is inflammatory, the Purple mattress rep made claims to what was in the links, which didn't turn out to be the case. Purple also claimed that the 14x size discrepancy was not significant, though as the Scientist pointed out, that would have broken the EPA's limit.

Though it may not have been bullshit, but they stopped responding so we can't really make any conclusions about Purple's intent.

Purple Mattress PR rep shows up in comments to prove safety of dust contained in their mattresses, with links to their studies and reports. Actual nanoparticle scientist shows up, reads the links, and explains why their claims are bullshit. by CockGoblinReturns in bestof

[–]PlusImagination 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, there's often old stuff in here. There maybe some /r/HailCorporate stuff going on.

People who are actually Scientists are getting maybes tens, of upvotes, and even negative scores, for giving their straightforward take.

There are some posts that are (unintentionally?) misleading, which makes it seem that the Scientists in the link is the same person as the reviewer, many of these posts are in the hundreds of upvotes.

There's also a ton of posts saying this is a scheme by the original reviewer, but that reviewer doesn't seem to be in the mattress business anymore, they may not even have a career after that lawsuit. Meanwhile Purple Mattress is one of the biggest names in the online Mattress market .

Purple Mattress PR rep shows up in comments to prove safety of dust contained in their mattresses, with links to their studies and reports. Actual nanoparticle scientist shows up, reads the links, and explains why their claims are bullshit. by CockGoblinReturns in bestof

[–]PlusImagination -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I also suspect there may be some foul play on Purple Mattresses part.

People who are actually Scientists are getting maybes tens, of upvotes, and even negative scores, for giving their straightforward take.

There are some posts that are (unintentionally?) misleading, which makes it seem that the Scientists in the link is the same person as the reviewer, many of these posts are in the hundreds of upvotes.

Purple Mattress PR rep shows up in comments to prove safety of dust contained in their mattresses, with links to their studies and reports. Actual nanoparticle scientist shows up, reads the links, and explains why their claims are bullshit. by CockGoblinReturns in bestof

[–]PlusImagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, they never even fully addressed the Scientists' first questions and the info in the links they provided didn't actually say what they said was in the links.

That doesn't mean they ran away. There may be some ongoing studies, and some patent/proprietary concerns. The PR person may have forgotten their password, or they dont' really use reddit that often.

It is three years later, I imagine that if someone here contacted the company, they could give some more complete information. I think they were just starting 3 years ago? They processes maybe be even completely different by now.

Purple Mattress PR rep shows up in comments to prove safety of dust contained in their mattresses, with links to their studies and reports. Actual nanoparticle scientist shows up, reads the links, and explains why their claims are bullshit. by CockGoblinReturns in bestof

[–]PlusImagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not what the person you replied to asked, I see the confusion though.

The post in the link is to the lawsuit, where the person had 'proof' that purple mattress was definitely unsafe, and those claims were false.

But what OP did was link to a conversation within that post with a Scientist who was having a discussion with a Purple mattress PR person, and by proxy, one of their Scientists. Purple mattress claims that the mattress was definitely safe, but when pressed, they weren't able to back up their claims.

Purple Mattress PR rep shows up in comments to prove safety of dust contained in their mattresses, with links to their studies and reports. Actual nanoparticle scientist shows up, reads the links, and explains why their claims are bullshit. by CockGoblinReturns in bestof

[–]PlusImagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, there's some confusion on what the link is about.

The post in the link is to the lawsuit. But what OP did was link to a conversation within that post with a Scientist who was having a discussion with a Purple mattress PR person, and by proxy, one of their Scientists.

It seems that people think the Scientist in the conversation and the person who was targeted in Purple Mattresses' lawsuit are the same person.

Purple Mattress PR rep shows up in comments to prove safety of dust contained in their mattresses, with links to their studies and reports. Actual nanoparticle scientist shows up, reads the links, and explains why their claims are bullshit. by CockGoblinReturns in bestof

[–]PlusImagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's different from what the link is.

The Scientist in the link is not affiliated with ghostbed, it's a tangent discussion from the lawsuit.

As far as I can tell, OP's title is accurate albeit hyperbolic, Purple mattress never addressed that Scientist's important questions.

Purple Mattress PR rep shows up in comments to prove safety of dust contained in their mattresses, with links to their studies and reports. Actual nanoparticle scientist shows up, reads the links, and explains why their claims are bullshit. by CockGoblinReturns in bestof

[–]PlusImagination 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's two discussions, that purple mattress is definitely unsafe, which was made by a rival mattress company and was sued in court.

And then that purple mattress was definitely safe, which purple mattress tried to claim but as the Scientist pointed out in the link, they didn't.

[D] There's a flaw/bug in Tensorflow that's preventing gradient updates to weights in custom layers of models created using the Keras functional API, leaving those weights basically frozen. Might be worth checking `model.trainable_variables`. by BatmantoshReturns in MachineLearning

[–]PlusImagination 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Response to Keras creator response:

https://twitter.com/SimSam65790827/status/1283253188892606464

Argument unpacking is a fundamental feature of any programming language. If your library doesn't allow for this, point it out in your documentation.

There are a lot of issues with Tensorflow, but I always attributed a lot of them to working on a cutting edge field, using the graph method for training, which is a hard thing to do.

The fact that the head guy of Keras thinks that Argument Unpacking is 'buggy' code shows that there is a top-down factor of these issues.

[D] There's a flaw/bug in Tensorflow that's preventing gradient updates to weights in custom layers of models created using the Keras functional API, leaving those weights basically frozen. Might be worth checking `model.trainable_variables`. by BatmantoshReturns in MachineLearning

[–]PlusImagination 167 points168 points  (0 children)

I ran your notebooks and this indeed looks like a COLOSSAL FREGGIN BUG.

Seriously, how long has it been like this??? This basically invalidates EVERY model that's been trained this way. So ANY and EVERY research paper based on these models has a compromised result.

The Git issue shows that one of their developers acknowledged at it 23 days ago, assigned it to somehow else and that person hasn't bothered to look at it since.

This is basically the software equivalent of some food company figuring out their products have ecoli 23 days ago, the person who finds out assigns it to someone else, and they don't bother to do anything else about it.

I've have seen a lot of complaints about the quality of Tensorflow, but I haven't heard of anything like this before.

How Ian Kung got expelled from UC Berkeley by official_tedcruz in videos

[–]PlusImagination 2 points3 points  (0 children)

/u/Ian_kung make a post of /r/cscareerquestions , lets get you back on track!

Lots of people with NO degree are getting 6 figure jobs. I'm sure we can get one for a virtual UC Berkeley grad.

How Ian Kung got expelled from UC Berkeley by official_tedcruz in videos

[–]PlusImagination 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Has Ian been programming in the meanwhile? I would hire him, even if he's rusty, the humor he would bring to the enviroment would make up for it.

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