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> I read a ML science paper without first having much of the foundational knowledge; I'd end up having to go off on more than a few Google dives per paragraph,
by MaxBarraclough 5y ago
> I read a ML science paper without first having much of the foundational knowledge; I'd end up having to go off on more than a few Google dives per paragraph, just to understand what they were talking about.
That's pretty much the norm with scientific publications, no? They're intended to be read by people with advanced degrees in the field.
- marcosdumay 5y agoYou know you have a problem when even advanced degrees in a close field isn't enough, because your symbols are different. (And yeah, ML has this one.) We should have iconographic dictionaries for Math.
- MaxBarraclough 5y agoOne man's i is another man's j.