Readit NewsAnd don't get me started on the Romans.
After the Romans captured Carthage they murdered 450,000 of its inhabitants.
This makes Caesar's Place in Las Vegas very culturally problematic.
And how about the indigenous Inca & Maya people, nobody wants to see their human sacrifice culture celebrated on Facebook (Mel Gibson exposed the ugly truth in Apocalypto)
And the Spanish Inquisition, Bluebeard, Ivan The Terrible, Robespierre, Lenin, Beelzebub and Donald J. Trump?
The ban list is way too short.
Arguably, time is better spent studying nuclear engineering.
That's the only thing that can save the planet (besides enabling space exploration and colonization of Moon and Mars)
andyxor commented on Ask HN: As a professional, does it worth it to learn the math behind NN? · Posted by u/IWantToRelocate
there is not much math, don't let the academic papers razzle dazzle you, they make things look complicated to get their grants
in practice, as long as you've studied basic calculus and understand how to find a minimum of a function via derivative you're good, there is your "gradient descent" in a nutshell: https://www.mathsisfun.com/calculus/maxima-minima.html
everything else is plug-and-play from existing libraries
you can ask any "data scientist" or "ML engineer" what they do all day, it's a whole lot of copy paste, and tweaking the data and parameters through trial and error until it fits
Edit: Ok , it would also help to understand dimensionality reduction via PCA/SVD at least once, it's available in any linear algebra book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_value_decomposition , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis that's probably the best and most "scientific" part of ML
andyxor commented on Neuroscientists roll out first comprehensive atlas of brain cells news.berkeley.edu/2021/10... · Posted by u/conse_lad
Are there any examples of "Hello World!" with simulated basic brain cells? I'm sure this is an entirely naive question given the complexity of a brain, but I'm imagining a rudimentary program to help understand brain-style processing with some kind of brain cell struct unit that represents real-ish input/output mechanisms that can be connected to other brain cell struct units...leading to some minimal brain-style processing outcomes.
If you want to understand how the brain works this is a good intro with some realistic neuronal network models ( spoiler: these have nothing to do with “artificial neural nets” as we know them) https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Computations-Edmund-T-Rolls/dp/...
Apocalypto focussed on the Maya, who aren't even from the same continent as the Inca.