Comment by jlamberts
11 hours ago
This is actually a well-known phenomenon in ML, called "The Bitter Lesson".
> One thing that should be learned from the bitter lesson is the great power of general purpose methods, of methods that continue to scale with increased computation even as the available computation becomes very great. The two methods that seem to scale arbitrarily in this way are search and learning.
The full essay is worth a read, it's pretty short http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Is that page served from a secure domain anywhere?
Out of curiousity, I like security just as much as the next guy and ensure that certs are valid, ciphers are fresh, and protocols are mature, but I am also not really concerned with an informational site that runs http being browsed. Would you mind sharing what your concern would be with browsing this content over http?
MITM injection by your ISP or government
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Not quite. The Wikipedia page is worth a look through if you don’t want to click on an http page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_lesson
Take your pick:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190401161916/http://www.incomp...
or
https://web.archive.org/web/20260727174324/http://www.incomp...
You could read it through internet archive if it's this important.
https://archive.ph/DQU4a
the page is nearly just a .txt file.
the reason for https is MITM injection, regardless of original content
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extremely HN comment