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It's not a zero sum situation. Him taking this approach does not restrict someone else from studying what they want. Also finance... really? I'm not sure I wou

It's not a zero sum situation. Him taking this approach does not restrict someone else from studying what they want. Also finance... really? I'm not sure I would agree that is a subject with a less capitalistic motivation. I don't get a lot of the bitterness here. I mean not everyone here creates their own programming language, or would know how to write a database, yet we are fine using them as tools. Why must we understand all the code and concepts in a neural network to apply it?

itsmefaz 7y ago
Not necessarily bitterness! I'm very happy for what he is doing. I'm looking at it very objectively, the problem is that the way the article presents his story is very flawed and incorrect. It sounds very much like a PR post. To address the Finance point, there are few areas of finance that is purely research driven and requires a lot of expertise of lateral domain like economics, mathematics. And once cannot grok that expertise in a year or so.. That was the point I was making! > Why must we understand all the code and concepts to apply it? That is one of the reason why our engineers are so sub-par because we were told to just shut up and write shit. We could have become a force to be reckoned with because of our expertise, because of our ability to solve complex problems. Yet we are living in an industry were there is huge disparity in salary, structure, and principles. I don't necessarily agree with why one shouldn't understand the concepts, I'm more a guy who says why not? Because, if you are standing on the shoulders of pioneers and claiming to be improving their work at least do it with compassion and honesty. Sorry about the rant.. would love to hear alternative opinions!