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by Badfood 1956 days ago
I know who I'd want to spend an afternoon talking to
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Some tier-A mathematicians working on some pretty fucking cool problems in online decision making and machine learning, or someone who writes shit like:

"Young people these days, I am told, are illiterate and cannot understand the written word. They can learn only from video. So should I speak to them in the language they understand?

Yes, I probably am a genius—but the issue is meaningless."

Efficient matrix multiplication does not make one a “tier-A mathematician”. And to add to that, even tier-A mathematics can be pretty damn boring.
I wasn't talking about methods for matrix multiplication.

The algorithms that are used by most ad recommendation services are deep enough themselves.

The ICML test of time award this year was for an adaptation of a technique used to study online decision making algorithms.

oddly enough, as boring as parts of math can be, for the layperson at least, I've yet to meet a boring mathemetician. Yet...
Write shit or talk shit? I’ll take write shit.