Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory

Re:Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory by boyobo on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @03:41AM (#25263558)

This particular comment was probably downvoted because he basically just took the hottest buzzword of the last decade and inserted it with a very weak link to the topic at hand. You could copy and paste this comment to any article about any achievement and it would have the same relevance.

It is certainly not a “new way of thinking”. First of all, there is hardly any thought here. Secondly, “understanding deep learning mathematically” is a well known problem to mathematicians.

It is a comment that could have been generated by an (old, 2000s era) AI.

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Re:Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory by captain_price7 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @06:35AM (#25264358)

You know, some of us work in the field that you call "hottest buzzword of the last decade", we constantly see problems that could have benefited enormously from geniuses like above.

So for people like me at least, it's not a "very weak link to the topic at hand".

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Re:Undergraduate Math Student Pushes Frontier of Graph Theory by boyobo on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:13AM (#25266448)

I already agreed that the op was hinting at an important problem. The link is weak because the op put hardly any effort into explaining the (possible) connection to these two particular undergraduates and their work. I am not claiming that math and deep learning are unrelated. Please read the rest of my response for context.

BTW, I am not using 'hottest buzzword of the decade' to denigrate the field of deep learning. I am using it to emphasize the op's shallow reference to the field.

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