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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 notatio…

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, b…

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 lim…

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 c…

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.

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.

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 proje…

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 o…

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 r…

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 …

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.…

Thank you, that helped!

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 lo…

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…

Alright, now let's hear the case for inconsistency.

What do you mean by "functions are exponentials"?

Nice, can't wait for the armada of "Slack consultants."

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 …

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). Stil…