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I read this - and I think there might have been some interesting points and ideas in there, but the whole article is way too unfocused to start considering them

I read this - and I think there might have been some interesting points and ideas in there, but the whole article is way too unfocused to start considering them. I first I thought the whole thing was generated by GPT-3. Perhaps there is some language barrier, but this article needs to be heavily edited: at least 50% should be cut. Remove all the strawman attacks - they just make you sound weird, and makes the article very confusing (not the content, the structure). You obviously feel strongly about them, but the writing is not good enough to make them readable. For example, random sentences like "The good news is that math doesn’t really care what some Australians or overpaid programmers at Big Tech think."... There's no context for this, so I don't even know what are you even talking about. I'm guessing you're being clever - but I can't agree or disagree with you, because without context it has no meaning. I don't even know who or what you are talking about at all. Get rid of the strawmen and the personal/political rants. Even when well written, they are boring. Don't tell me why other people suck, show me why your ideas are good. Stop trying to be clever, and just tell me your ideas!

reinman 4y ago
I appreciate the feedback - it's a follow up to Part 1 for completeness, I don't expect anyone here to read it. Bombastic articles get attention but yes I need to tone it down. I don't think anyone cares about the FP cat fights anymore anyway You bring up an important preface that I forgot to add - thank you. Yes it does seem like I am jumping around and categories have a nasty pedagogical reputation because of how the brain is wired. Categories are a convergent tech but the human brain wants to compartmentalize, so this paper is literally pushing the opposite way we normally process information
- schme 4y ago
  To be fair I would have read it, but there was no link, as another comments have pointed out as well.
  - reinman 4y ago
    It was mostly a troll article not worth reading - maybe there is a copy on wayback machine
virtualritz 4y ago
> For example, random sentences like "The good news is that math doesn’t really care what some Australians or overpaid programmers at Big Tech think."... There's no context for this, [...] To me this is funny/entertaining w/o taking focus off the topic. It is the kind of humor you will find in the UK and northern Europe. Dry, and has at least one level of indirection. I.e. not someone tripping over something and you hear a laughing track dubbed over that – in case you missed that was meant to be funny. I generally like when a text about a mentally taxing topic is lightly interspersed with such digressions. Most of my American friends don't grok them and not seldomly react like you – they consider these rants and not funny.
- bspammer 4y ago
  Weird, the example you quoted feels American to me. British comedy tends to be self deprecating, whereas the article constantly takes the position of “I am the smart one, everyone else is doing it wrong” FWIW I’m not criticising, I enjoyed some of the ideas and they may well be correct.
  - reinman 4y ago
    I removed the jabs at the Aussies - that is dirty laundry I really don't need to be bringing up here as no one cares anymore
- reinman 4y ago
  Yeah the west coast doesn't do humor anymore. I lived in San Francisco / Seattle years ago but I avoid all that now. They take offense at everything so everyone frowns in the stores. Coming from Eastern Europe, I recognize the creepy Soviet vibe and this is reflected in the pretty nauseating HN community Miami is WAAAY cooler Enjoy this article before it gets pulled
brobinson 4y ago
>For example, random sentences like "The good news is that math doesn’t really care what some Australians or overpaid programmers at Big Tech think."... There's no context for this, https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/07/prime-minister-says-the-laws-of-australia-can-beat-the-laws-of-math/ https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/07/prime-minister-says-the-l...
- reinman 4y ago
  It was a poke at a very smart but also very annoying FP troll @dibblego For a while, FP noobs were terrorized by a bunch of FP thugs on Twitter

reinman 4y ago

I appreciate the feedback - it's a follow up to Part 1 for completeness, I don't expect anyone here to read it. Bombastic articles get attention but yes I need to tone it down. I don't think anyone cares about the FP cat fights anymore anyway You bring up an important preface that I forgot to add - thank you. Yes it does seem like I am jumping around and categories have a nasty pedagogical reputation because of how the brain is wired. Categories are a convergent tech but the human brain wants to compartmentalize, so this paper is literally pushing the opposite way we normally process information

schme 4y ago
To be fair I would have read it, but there was no link, as another comments have pointed out as well.
- reinman 4y ago
  It was mostly a troll article not worth reading - maybe there is a copy on wayback machine

virtualritz 4y ago

> For example, random sentences like "The good news is that math doesn’t really care what some Australians or overpaid programmers at Big Tech think."... There's no context for this, [...] To me this is funny/entertaining w/o taking focus off the topic. It is the kind of humor you will find in the UK and northern Europe. Dry, and has at least one level of indirection. I.e. not someone tripping over something and you hear a laughing track dubbed over that – in case you missed that was meant to be funny. I generally like when a text about a mentally taxing topic is lightly interspersed with such digressions. Most of my American friends don't grok them and not seldomly react like you – they consider these rants and not funny.

bspammer 4y ago
Weird, the example you quoted feels American to me. British comedy tends to be self deprecating, whereas the article constantly takes the position of “I am the smart one, everyone else is doing it wrong” FWIW I’m not criticising, I enjoyed some of the ideas and they may well be correct.
- reinman 4y ago
  I removed the jabs at the Aussies - that is dirty laundry I really don't need to be bringing up here as no one cares anymore
reinman 4y ago
Yeah the west coast doesn't do humor anymore. I lived in San Francisco / Seattle years ago but I avoid all that now. They take offense at everything so everyone frowns in the stores. Coming from Eastern Europe, I recognize the creepy Soviet vibe and this is reflected in the pretty nauseating HN community Miami is WAAAY cooler Enjoy this article before it gets pulled

brobinson 4y ago

>For example, random sentences like "The good news is that math doesn’t really care what some Australians or overpaid programmers at Big Tech think."... There's no context for this, https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/07/prime-minister-says-the-laws-of-australia-can-beat-the-laws-of-math/ https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/07/prime-minister-says-the-l...

reinman 4y ago
It was a poke at a very smart but also very annoying FP troll @dibblego For a while, FP noobs were terrorized by a bunch of FP thugs on Twitter