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Was this written by an LLM? I'm not highly confident, but there are some telltale signs. For example, the negative preceding multiple positive contrasting examples pattern is quite…

I don't think this is true having read some of the later chapters and not knowing measure theory. And if you don't trust me, Gelman doesn't know measure theory either ( https://sta…

Knuth has said that the story as told above is apocryphal. I quote from here ( http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856 ): > Donald: The story you heard is typical o…

I like Andrew Ng's short article ( https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140320175655-176238488-lear... ) about this topic. Recommends taking short videos of elements of your speech and…

Yeah, this was me posting first, which ironically garnered much less interest than someone else's post (number 2 I believe).

I learned yesterday that Ken Thompson used to host readings of Unix source code at Berkeley where they would go through the code line-by-line ( https://www.salon.com/2000/05/16/cha…

Upvoted for careful scholarship and a useful addendum (I'm OP)! I sometimes wonder whether a lot of Knuth's greatness comes from doing more of the stuff everyone knows they should …

To push back on this point a little bit, I think we agree that a map is one of the most useful things you can have but disagree on what the right type of map is. While I'm not anti…

Hi kazinator, thanks for your comment (I'm the post's author). When I originally wrote the post, I actually had a whole section about "reading for questions", which discussed how t…

I wish one of these pull requesters would comment on this post! I'd love to hear how they're going about reading your code and whether they're actually using Redis or just reading …

As the author of the post, just wanted to reply and say I'm totally open to the notion that the solutions I proposed will not solve the problem. I'm much more sure about the proble…

What about Beyond Good and Evil made such a big impact on you? I read it and enjoyed it a lot as well but struggle to put it into words how it has impacted me.

It only now occurs to me that the line of thinking I follow here is sub-consciously inspired by section 3 of this Marvin Minsky talk ( https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Turi…

> By the way, human already learn from experience by bootstraping their own understanding, teachers and experts exist to fast track the beginning phase so a kid doesn't have to pla…

I agree that AlphaZero's per-game learning efficiency is much shorter than a human's (as mentioned in my other reply). The part that interested me more was the fact that it bootstr…

Thanks for being the first to reply. I was worried I'd just get upvotes and no replies! I think you have two separate points, one with which I agree and one with which I disagree. …

Since I lack the ML background to debunk this suspicion, I figured I'd let HN debunk it for me. Seeing AlphaZero's success at learning Chess, Shogi, and Go, I was immediately struc…

> These are mostly solved problems (minus omniscience or scale) with just handfuls of books that represent most parts of the solution. Could you list some of those books? Would lov…

I've actually been actually working at this for the past few weeks. First, the caveat that I haven't implemented a good tracking system beyond casually jotting down Xs next to my t…

Off-topic: @hacker_9 just saw one of your recent comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13267106 ) and you seem to be thinking along similar lines to me and akkartik ( htt…

About the same for me as well. The only thing I'd add is that if the book has exercises and some of them are algorithmic in nature, I often require days of background thinking time…