Re:Why are deep learning technologists so overconfident?
by martindbp on Thursday September 01, 2022 @10:40AM
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> they weren't that hot about hypes either
Are you really trying to convince me that the original hackers were tech-conservatives? They literally set the trends and built the future.
Who are these marketing types you talk of? I don't dispute there is a lot of fluff and hype going around, but you chose yourself who you listen to. I follow true hackers like John Carmack, Jeri Ellsworth, Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz and prominent scientists like Yann LeCun. If all you find is hype and marketing that's on you. It's like people complaining that Twitter is bad, you decide who to follow!
Ah, if only that was the case... One can dream, however...
Mind you, when real hackers walked the earth (MIT, AT&T, Xerox, and so on), they weren't that hot about hypes either, and they couldn't be further from today's marketing types.
Those were hackers: programmers, scientists, enthusiasts, and so on.
Not today's used-car-salemen types touting AI, big data, VR, and the rest...