alt Hacker NewsI don’t really have much sympathy for mathematicians, frankly.
It strikes me that their field previously was quite heavily gatekept, and there was quite a lot of intellectual snobbery.
Seeing them taken down a peg or a hundred is somewhat gratifying.
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jacquesm • today at 4:29 PM
You mean as opposed to the IT world where we all excel in transparency and clear terminology?
How is that Bloom filter written in Rust using Agile coming along?
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I really don't understand this. Mathematics was and still is the most open intellectual discipline. There was more good work from unknown people recognized than anywhere else. It's one of the reasons all this was possible: there were objective standards that could not be waved away, so when ML models achieved things it couldn't be denied.