Why is #Netneutrality Important to Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence ?

So your ISP decides the speed or the kind of service you can get based on religion or what not. What happens to our field ? Because you have spent much time on the following services, you are throttled down or have to pay for "premium" services. As a result, you may or may not get to 

• follow Andrew Ng's Coursera or Siraj Raval classes
• submit your Kaggle results on time
• read ArXiv preprints
• read the latest GAN paper on time
• watch NIPS/ICLR/CVPR/ACL videos
• download datasets
• pay more to use ML/DL on the cloud
• share reviews
• download the latest ML/DL frameworks
• have access to your Slack channels 
• read Nuit Blanche
• follow awesome DL thread on Twitter
• get scholar google alerts
• .... 

The rest is on Twitter

 

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