[gwern]

> I'm sorry, if you want a verifiable proof with papers and references I don't have one for you. A lot of things in life don't have such proofs. But my empirical experience has been that tons of people with no idea what they are doing are ranting on blogs and tutorials and such, where hardcore programmers I know are silently getting far more impressive shit done.

I hope the irony here is not being lost on you.

[coldtea]

More like self-knowledge -- those "silent" people are making far more impressive shit done than _I_ do too.