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by epsilonclose 6y ago
Is encountering function notation and the symbol for the set of real numbers all that different from encountering unfamiliar vocabulary? It is slightly harder to Google for notation, but otherwise I do not see a major difference. In the Wik
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
This just reads like a teardown of another person. As a reader, I come away with very little. There is the faint hint of a defense of Google's processes against Noam's criticism, but no real defense is ever made. The entire counte
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
I don't know. For a sufficiently large change, it isn't necessarily in your company's best interest to try to keep you happy. You have banked knowledge and skill in X. You have limited skill in Y but wish to learn. The loss o
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
Sounds like a bad captain, entirely reactive and not proactive at all. Those people were brought onto the boat to perform these duties but were given no oversight? Why didn't the captain have any knowledge of the fires that were happen
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
I am only claiming that the comment is not abusive. If it violates the snark guideline or similar, then sure, lock it up and throw away the key.
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
You may find that comment disagreeable, but it is hardly abusive. The neutered tone sung by most Hacker News castrati seems to have made folks forget what passion reads like.
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
I think your skepticism is well-placed. If this were a "30 day creative programming" course, I wonder what the HN reaction would be. My guess is that it would be: just pick a project and go for it, you don't need a class to s
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
Thanks for the answers. More questions if you're feeling up to it: Will there be any sort of requirements to "demonstrate progress" to the funders (even if that means the results of a failed experiment or some sort of open la
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
What are some ways this will differ from Patreon and similar platforms? Put another way, what are some changes being made to that funding model to better support machine learning research specifically? Supposing this platform is successful,
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
I'm going to ignore "being an artist" and "being a writer" and assume you want to work on technical things. I'm also going to ignore academia because that opens a whole new can of worms about what it means to b
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
Do independent thinkers read essays that tell them how to think independently? The irony may have been intentional on the author's part, but I still won't read the essay. Bad juju.
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
Thank you, that helped!
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
Thank you for clarifying. I was familiar with the notation A^B for the set of all f: A -> B, but this seemed like something more (and it does appear to be). Putting some links I looked at here to save someone a few seconds of Googling:
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
Are you actually even a little interested in any of these things? You mention other things being more interesting. You might be telling yourself something. Obviously we do not live in a bubblegum dream world and you may not always be able t
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
Alright, now let's hear the case for inconsistency.
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
What do you mean by "functions are exponentials"?
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
Nice, can't wait for the armada of "Slack consultants."
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
That is certainly a real distinction, though I think your point about immigrant families not knowing "the game" is probably the better one. If parents know how the admissions game is played, then they can throw capital (fiscal and
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by epsilonclose 6y ago
I don't disagree with your point about admissions (and in fact I came from a family that had good income but both parents never went to college, so had little advice to give). Still: your family was already well near the 75th percentil