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Re:Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos by mkempe on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:45PM (#16872732)
Why do you feel sad about the fact that an individual who values science is "privately funding" a great publication? surely you don't object to private wealth and/or activity?
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Re:Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos by intended on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @11:24PM (#16873110)
Being dependent on the whim of a wealthy individual is saddening.
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Re:Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos by mkempe on Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:14AM (#16873288)
Could one be, instead, appreciative of and grateful to the considered, generous decision of that individual? how do you think he would respond to someone expressing one kind of feeling or the other?
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Re:Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos by fjsolwmv on Thursday April 19, 2018 @01:04AM (#16873450)
I assume that he became a multibillionaire in part by not troubling himself with the opinions of nobodies.
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Re:Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos by internetman55 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @06:46AM (#16874765)
Why do you think that I'm not? Lol
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Re:Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos by mmirate on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @11:36PM (#16873146)
Would it be any less saddening to depend on the whim of an uneducated, innumerate and manipulable mob?
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Re:Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos by fjsolwmv on Thursday April 19, 2018 @01:03AM (#16873445)
Better would be the considered preferences of an educated numerated mobs.
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Re:Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos by fjsolwmv on Thursday April 19, 2018 @01:02AM (#16873443)
Please don't put opinions in other people's mouths. Not everyone believes that extreme levels of wealth controlled by one individual is good.
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