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by GreenHeuristics 2055 days ago
What's unreasonable about it?
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marton78 2055 days ago
It's an hommage to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...

The title has become a meme just like "... considered harmful".

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kubanczyk 2055 days ago
Actually, it's a homage to "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks" which is a homage to "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".
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Nowado 2055 days ago
Meme chains definitely are a progress compared to eponyms, but personally I hoped we would make a slightly bigger jump this time.
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ve55 2055 days ago
It would be better read in a way such as 'unreasonably surprising'
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