Not sure what's your intent with all that "pseudo constructive criticism" tone. And also, what's the point of sharing links that are completely out of the purpose of the post?
I invited more positive and productive discussion on the advertised topic:
>"I'd enjoy hearing some concrete discussion of what unique vision you have for improving the intuition of people trying to do data science, and how this helps humanity, and your journey beyond A/B testing marketing techniques.
So far i've not received it from any replies (including yours) and haven't seen it happen in any other comment threads so far (including ones which could be made by yourself).
The lack of thoughtful discussion makes me believe this post is meant to be just a marketing/sales pitch (something I covered as a potential issue in my comment) rather than a post for having deep, thoughtful, expansive discussions on this topic.
Like I said, I think you are perhaps the one who isn't in sync with what kind of conversations are valued.
Your comment comes off bitter. You could just provide additional links for those interested, and/or not read/buy the course if you're not interested. Whatever is upsetting you is not this.
I am indeed bitter (def: anger and disappointment at being treated unfairly; resentment) about people using their credentials rather than real merits of their work to attempt to get a leg up when advertising their work. I covered my dissatisfaction about that in my post.
Distill.pub for example, despite being written by people who worked at OpenAI and (also funded by) Google Brain, makes nearly no mention of either. They've managed to successfully accomplish their goal (creating resources to help people improve their intuition about machine learning) without resorting to those tactics.
I think the popularity of my post suggests it better represents the general sentiment of people who viewed the page than not, but I do accept the tone reflects my negative feelings towards the perceived credentialsim:substance ratio more than it does an impartial review of the content. Genuinely, feel free to remove the entirely of my thread if you think it is unproductive, I'm unable to edit it.
People upvote highly emotive stuff all the time even if it's at odds with HN's guidelines so whatever it suggests, it doesn't suggest the place on HN where people showcase their work is also the place for harangues. People like harangues! It's just not the subforum for them.
Uh credentials are good actually. The point of credentials is that they allow me to trust someone without being an expert myself. Of course if you are already an expert then you can look beyond credentials to determine whether someone knows what they're doing or not
