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No, but the author seems to be above being critiqued for supposedly not even knowing of the existence of the field. Considering that he is a somewhat well know
by user43928 8d ago
No, but the author seems to be above being critiqued for supposedly not even knowing of the existence of the field.
Considering that he is a somewhat well known expert in the field who has been doing full time research on it for a decade.
- suddenlybananas 8d agohttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZLnQcAsAAAAJ&hl=en https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZLnQcAsAAAAJ&hl=en This is not the google scholar of a well-known expert, I'm sorry.
- vatsachak 8d agoMuh academic ivory tower
- user43928 8d agoWhile that might not be the largest academic footprint, I don't think you could dispute him being an expert or being 'somewhat well known'.
- suddenlybananas 8d agoHe seems to have a big following on AI-hype twitter, I'll grant you that. It is interesting however, how you weren't familiar with him at all [1] 20 minutes before describing him as a well-known expert. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49753179#49754358 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49753179#49754358
- golol 8d agoHas nothing to do with AI-hype. Anyone who is interested in Lambda calculus should find his work intriguing.
- user43928 8d agoWhat's interesting about it? I looked it up, and he seems to have worked on research in that area for a decade. The author of the blog post could have checked the same before making the claims.
- ffsm8 8d agoThere are countless people with essentially no domain knowledge to speak of after working on the domain for a decade. I have no idea how the original authors competency is, I know nothing about them. There is however a strong correlation between people being influencers and kinda mediocre at what they're an influencer in - which is frankly understandable, because a large part of their skillset is usually more towards attracting an audience and making the topic interesting. Usually the true domain experts rarely interface with the public beyond their professional capacity.
- gf000 8d agoSomeone can be a well-known expert in a tiny niche field, and one may be completely unaware of them, or even the whole field. You are splitting hairs for no reason, while standing on the wrong side of this discussion. Feel free to criticize the project on its actual content.
- nullbio 8d agohttps://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=Linus+Torvalds&btnG= https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&... Is this? Or perhaps a Google Scholar means jack shit? Since when is that the official measure of an expert.
- suddenlybananas 8d agoWhat has Victor Taelin made which is any way comparable to Linus Torvalds? I'm not saying it's impossible to be a well-known expert with a shitty google scholar. I'm just not seeing any evidence at all in Taelin's case. He doesn't even have a wikipedia page!
- nullbio 8d agoYou have a very strange definition of expert. Most people do not have a Wikipedia page, and most experts do not have a Wikipedia page.
- baq 8d agoIt’s like saying Linus Torvalds isn’t an expert on the Linux kernel