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by pwang 4664 days ago
> Also the poster seems to have an agenda;

True. Most people who take the time to write content that they publish on the internet have an agenda.

> this is just marketing.

False. This is an informative and useful summary of a 75-page deeply technical presentation into a few screens of text, and shows actual Python code (and benchmarks) to demonstrate the principles.

> Also, the practical use of this idea is extremely limited.

Care to elaborate? A substantive discussion about the subject of the original post would actually be constructive and add value for the HN community.

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I'm sorry, and you are right. What I really meant was that I dislike them not giving enough credit, thus making them look smart with Vasily's knowledge. This kind of marketing feels immoral to me.

>Care to elaborate? This really isn't the right place for that so I didn't bother. The right place would be a thread/forum talking about the original presentation. Also there wouldn't much to elaborate since my opinion was based on general insight, it is not a provable fact.