I do not exempt those who make such statements just because they have authority. If anything, they should know better. I started off along much the same path (

I do not exempt those who make such statements just because they have authority. If anything, they should know better. I started off along much the same path (I bought and read Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation (1994) by Simon Haykin) when I was in high school, read it all and thought I knew everything there was to know on the topic, and then started to read about neurobiology and was stunned to discover I was living a lie. Then I read The Computational Beauty of Nature (1998) by Gary William Flake and decided I was going to dedicate myself to understanding the complexities we brush under the rugs. I think the Hacker News/Silicon Valley/Machine Learning/Developer crowd really need to look beyond the virtuosismo of their implementations. It’s a very introverted and self-referential mindset.