Thanks for pointing this out. I was much too cynical in the above post.
I wonder if the C-bashers were saying something similar when Lisp machines were reigning unchallenged.
Resisting immigration of a particular demographic, one that arguably contributes most to the coffers of the said welfare state, is well within epistemological domain of the word 'xenophobia'.
It's definitely to be welcomed, but India barely has the kind of interests, state-apparatus or companies that'd want something like this to succeed. India neither has Baidu, nor Tencent, nor Wechat. They have Flipkart,…
As someone who has seen enough of the math, I strongly feel that probability just makes ideas seem "sexier" in ML; often you don't really need probability, or you only need it to use Jensen. Worse, using probabilities…
Thanks for pointing this out. I was much too cynical in the above post.
I wonder if the C-bashers were saying something similar when Lisp machines were reigning unchallenged.
Resisting immigration of a particular demographic, one that arguably contributes most to the coffers of the said welfare state, is well within epistemological domain of the word 'xenophobia'.
It's definitely to be welcomed, but India barely has the kind of interests, state-apparatus or companies that'd want something like this to succeed. India neither has Baidu, nor Tencent, nor Wechat. They have Flipkart,…
As someone who has seen enough of the math, I strongly feel that probability just makes ideas seem "sexier" in ML; often you don't really need probability, or you only need it to use Jensen. Worse, using probabilities…