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Author here. Somehow the worst thing I ever wrote is on the front page of HN. I wrote this fast so there's jargon and bad prose. The title is deliberately dry and bland so I wasn't…

the interesting web problems (collaborative tools, creative software, scientific computing) have to fight against a framework ecosystem designed for the blandest landing pages. Nex…

Fair enough. IMO the best solution is/was always hiccup (cljs) since it has no extra syntax to the core of the language (vectors/maps)

Wrong frame. It's just a playground

It's great people experiment. Yet, after a quick glance the framework seems to break expected semantics for no gain? For example: the "component" construct auto-renders the JSX wit…

smarter waifus for the wicked

It's a glorified youtube channel. Not a technology. That's most of the crux. It worked because Khan was early and made good content

Why are people getting hung up on his hubris? If his megalomania gives us Mathematica who cares. It's a phenomenal accomplishment. It can, out of the box, do hundreds of things tha…

sad that this guy could've continued doing good CS research as assoc prof but instead is compelled to do youtube and sell productivity courses of the three same rehashed ideas ad i…

+1

he's been following his own advice religiously for years

Patents were the more obvious go to but we didn't want to work with obfuscated patent descriptions for the next years

But you're right; open source projects for extracting infos (like PubTator) are valuable but ontologies/KGs need ongoing expert (ML, AI, SWEs, information architects, labelers) wor…

"follow the best institutions and ~50 top individuals" wasn't meant as a suggestion actually, just an observation of what most people do. You're right they "could work if designed …

Hey, author here. Great discussion so far. Will update the post with some of the comments and critiques.

You hit the nail on the head. Will put some of that in the appendix of the post!