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by visarga 3358 days ago
It imitates an old paper title: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" by Eugene Wigner (1960)
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Yes, that's exactly what the parent was referencing -- bloggers in the CS space looove referencing that one and the "Goto Considered Harmful" paper, and it's been really, really annoying and not clever at all for years.
I thought Wigner was actually paying homage to Karpathy.
Few know that Karpathy was using a previous meme.