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A comment on Mark Zuckerberg's 2016 personal challenge. Parent comment

Re:Mark Zuckerberg's 2016 personal challenge by wslh on Sunday January 03, 2016 @08:09PM (#10833476)
I bet against you. In the real world in 2016 even if you are a genius you can't do it alone except in very rare cases. You can impress others with your individual skills but you can't push the boundaries.

If he can achieve his goal will mean that a lot of people could do that and there is nothing special in that project. You can argue that he has more access to data than you and me but several people working at FB have the same access as him. His simple AI will be... yes, simple.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg's 2016 personal challenge by tkmh on Monday January 04, 2016 @06:39AM (#10834983)
> If he can achieve his goal will mean that a lot of people could do that and there is nothing special in that project.

I think that's kind of the point of his personal challenges. He's trying to set an example of being intellectually curious, not show off that he's a genius. Wasn't one of his previous projects for the year to learn Chinese? A difficult challenge, but not a superhuman one. Plenty of other people are capable of it.

There are things to dislike about Zuckerberg, but I don't think these challenges are one of them. They're pretty admirable imo.

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