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Comment by Ologn

5 days ago

> I've been reading this website for probably 15 years, its never been this bad.

People here were pretty skeptical about AlexNet, when it won the ImageNet challenge 13 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4611830

Ouch that thread makes me quite sad at the state of discourse on HN today. It's a lot better than this thread.

That thread was skeptical, but it's still far more substantive than what you find here today.

  • I think that's because the announcement there actually told you something technically interesting. This just presents a result (which is cool), but the actual method is what is really cool!