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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networ... by nerdponx on Sunday February 03, 2019 @02:18PM (#19071551)
It's a deliberate riff on "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences", in the same vein of declaring something "considered harmful."
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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networ... by thinkr42 on Sunday February 03, 2019 @04:28PM (#19072340)
That is something I hadn’t thought of before
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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networ... by tomrod on Sunday February 03, 2019 @03:26PM (#19071959)
I must be missing something -- I have never considered the "unreasonable effectiveness" and "considered harmful" to be equivalent?
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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networ... by jasode on Sunday February 03, 2019 @04:17PM (#19072271)
>I have never considered the "unreasonable effectiveness" and "considered harmful" to be equivalent?

I didn't downvote you but as an fyi...

When gp wrote "in the same vein of", he wasn't saying the phrases meant the same thing. He was pointing out that they are the same classification of rhetorical device which some call a "snowclone". (See examples.[1])

The "unreasonable effectiveness of <x>" is re-used as a text template similar to "<x> considered harmful".

For another timely example, the current #1 story on HN is ""Debugging Emacs, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DTrace"". I think many readers will recognize it as a snowclone of the Kubrick film title "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"

The snowclone is: "<X> or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love <Y>".[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone#Notable_examples

[2] More examples of previous HN submissions that used that Strangelove snowclone: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=or%20%22how%20i%20learned%20to...)

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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networ... by tomrod on Sunday February 03, 2019 @08:52PM (#19073414)
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks -- and thanks for teaching me about "snowclone".
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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networ... by buboard on Sunday February 03, 2019 @06:24PM (#19072883)
for the sake of completeness, both are good reads

https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.p...

https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf

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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networ... by adrianhel on Sunday February 03, 2019 @03:35PM (#19072030)
"The unreasonable effectiveness of ___" and "___ considered harmful" titles are copied a lot. They are not equivalent in any way.
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