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Re: YC 120

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Post by exolymph »

thanksDr wrote: post #137
exolymph wrote: post #112

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Just FYI, as someone who also considers schools to be coercive institutions, "schools are more unjust than prison" is a hugely unconvincing pitch. I'd advise you to frame it another way.

Thank you. I'm trying to come up with a good wholly-positive way of framing it in terms of benefits to leadership and innovation. I know I'm going to need a positive message to succeed.

Maybe something about allowing students to express their individuality and reach their full potential as humans through curiosity and exploration?

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Post by deepnotderp »

irq11 wrote: post #128
deepnotderp wrote: post #117

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While I get the underlying sentiment, it's worth noting that there have been examples of success, e.g. Deepmind with AlphaFold for protein folding with relatively little domain knowledge.

AlphaFold not only depended on a great deal of domain knowledge, it actually used one of the most famous physics-based methods. The only people who think that AlphaGo was made by a bunch of noob AI guys with a neural network are the people who don’t know anything about it.

I said relatively, they certainly had less domain knowledge than the competing teams. I have always been a strong proponent of combining ML and NNs with traditional methods.

Re: YC 120

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Post by shafyy »

nix0n wrote: post #140
shafyy wrote: post #138

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That's not solving physics. Physics is not a problem, it's a branch of the natural sciences. We can solve physics-related problems, but it's not like if we've solved enough physics-related problems we have solved physics. That's like saying "solve this coffee table".

> That's like saying "solve this coffee table". If I can set down my mug on the coffee table, I'll consider the coffee table to be solved.

You consider the problem of having your mug at a convenient height and distance from your sitting positing to be solved, but not the coffee table itself.

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Post by yksugi »

mettamage wrote: post #122

I applied. I am looking for people who are interested in transforming education. If me and a group of similar minded individuals are able to make people learn twice as fast, then that would be a huge win for the world. People say that education (idea generation and implementation) comes easy to me. And I also find it the most fun sector to work in. If the ed tech startups of the world are reading this: I'm available…

Hi! Maybe we should talk :)

Here's my website/profile: https://www.csdojo.io/

Re: YC 120

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Post by erbium »

dang wrote: post #82
erbium wrote: post #74

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People eventually get tired of giving useful feedback to unhelpful people. Maybe that's a piece of advice someone should share with sama sama.

You may not owe Sam or any individual better than this, but you do owe quite a bit better to the community you're participating in here.

I hope so.
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