I somewhat agree. It's more often than not headlines, anecdotes and philosophy about ML. But where is the common denominator high enough to talk about it in a deeper way?
I've visited /r/machinelearning, /r/computervision /r/reinforcementlearning, and although they are often better than HN, they also either partly suffer from the same condition, or are almost dead with no real activity.
TLDR; what are some good places to hang out for good ML discussions and news?
Twitter has good conversation as well, if you follow all the ML people.
Most researchers are in labs so they usually discuss these things in person with their colleagues. Also the community is relatively small so a lot of discussion happens at conferences and most people are first or second degree connections.
> I've visited /r/machinelearning, /r/computervision /r/reinforcementlearning, and although they are often better than HN, they also either partly suffer from the same condition, or are almost dead with no real activity.
The issue is that most of the people that practice ML don't talk about it in the open (with the exceptions of academics on Twitter). The best discussions I've found happens in the labs or cross-lab email lists.
