Machine Learning Christmas Calendar

Re:Machine Learning Christmas Calendar by na-zdrowie on Friday December 06, 2019 @12:37PM (#21724068)

I think that "Christmas Calendar" is a bit of a misnomer. To be precise, this is a variation on the tradition of the "Advent Calendar". Advent is the time of preparation for Christmas. Clearly the authors of the Calendar understand this, based on the graphic under day "1" :)

Edit: on second thought, i guess you've meant "Machine Learning Christmas" Calendar. That's fine. It just bothers me a bit that in the US people forget about Advent.

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Re:Machine Learning Christmas Calendar by kvalle on Friday December 06, 2019 @12:50PM (#21724216)

In Norwegian we use the terms "Christmas calendar" and "Advent calendar" (translated directly) interchangeably. This i probably why some of the calendars (under the https://bekk.christmas umbrella) are using the term incorrectly

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Re:Machine Learning Christmas Calendar by ggggtez on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:56PM (#21725902)

I don't really think the difference is really notable. I knew it would be a daily calendar counting until Christmas. I guess I fall into the camp of not being a prescriptivist of language.

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