another obviously correct opinion from Lucidity

  • Windex007@lemmy.world
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    You’re not a real data scientist unless you’ve written your own libraries in C??

    I couldn’t get past the inferiority complex masquerading as a confident appeal to authority.

    Maybe the rest of the article was good but the taste of vomit wasn’t worth it to me.

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      You’re not a real data scientist unless you’ve written your own libraries in C??

      no one said this

      if you had actually read the article instead of just reacting to it, you would probably understand that the purpose of the second paragraph is to lead to the first section where he tears down the field of data science as full of opportunistic hucksters, shambling in pantomime of knowledgeable people. he’s bragging about his creds, sure, but it’s pretty clearly there to lend credence that he knows what he’s talking about when he starts talking about the people that “had not gotten as far as reading about it for thirty minutes” before trying to blindly pivot their companies to “AI”.

      I couldn’t get past the inferiority complex masquerading as a confident appeal to authority.

      hello? oh, yes, i’ll have one drive-by projection with a side of name-dropped fallacy. yes, reddit-style please. and a large soda

      Maybe the rest of the article was good but the taste of vomit wasn’t worth it to me.

      “not reading” isn’t a virtue

      • David Gerard@awful.systems
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        i’ve always enjoyed* the style of HN comment “I stopped reading when I got to [basic historical fact I misread]”

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        I’m not God’s gift to the field, but I am clearly better than most of my competition - that is, practitioners who haven’t put in the reps to build their own C libraries in a cave with scraps, but can read textbooks and use libraries written by elite institutions.

        I agree not reading isn’t a virtue, but after reading something that caused my eyes to roll entirely out of my skull, I had to choose to cut the damage to my optic nerves.

        Maybe the rest was good. That was bad. My critique is constrained to that specific, nauseating paragraph.

    • David Gerard@awful.systems
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      that’s because you need to get good and read the entire works of Lucidity to improve yourself

      sorry, it’s you

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        Is it a common theme to shit on people for not having rollied their own C implemtations or was that a one off lapse of judgment on their part?

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            and they were just so proud to come here and brag about how they didn’t read the relatively short, extremely well-received article that is the topic of this thread, because they took issue with the tone of the second paragraph and decided policing that was an adequate replacement for reading and engaging with the fucking text

            like, fuck almighty even if I’m quotemining a post I don’t like for sneering material I’m still at least skimming halfway, and we specialize in sneering at some real long-winded motherfuckers