Is it just me or is odd that Eliezer calls himself a math prodigy?
EY has been in the AI world claiming to be an AI research for more then 10 years. He also claims that he needs to spend a year studying math. Now most people even non math prodigies can get a B.S., M.S., and most of a PhD in the same amount of time.
EY also states his knowledge of math is tiny compared to a mathematician. How can this be 10 years studying math and a “prodigy” so math should be easy since he is as he claims so good at explaining it and he has a good sense for right answers half the time.
Now let me get this straight very little math knowledge compared to a mathematician. A math prodigy so its easy. Great taste in right answers. Yet after 10 years in a math field (AI) he doesn’t know that much math.
Most math people I know right math papers especially when they are good at it. Not EY in fact he doesn’t nor has he ever published a high level math paper. Anyone else confused?
If you include the time spent in elementary school, high school, and college, most people with a Ph.D in math have spent many, many years studying math...
Also, generally “prodigy” means that, as a child, one was far beyond one’s age group. If you’re learning algebra at 8 and calculus at 11, you’re a prodigy… even if you don’t yet know any math beyond the high school level.
Also, generally “prodigy” means that, as a child, one was far beyond one’s age group. If you’re learning algebra at 8 and calculus at 11, you’re a prodigy..
That doesn’t feel sufficient to me. I usually interpret the word to imply achieving high levels of status while still a child (for example, winning national competitions, touring internationally as a perfomer, etc.). Merely learning stuff won’t do that.
XiXiDu’s grammatical quirks are subtle. Not outright errors like these, just lapses from idiomatic English. He’s also been comfortable questioning SIAI members publically under his own name.
XiXiDu’s grammatical quirks are subtle. Not outright errors like these, just lapses from idiomatic English.
In fact at least one of them—“the SIAI” with the definite article—has spread to the point of idiomaticity among significant portions of the LW community.
Is it just me or is odd that Eliezer calls himself a math prodigy?
EY has been in the AI world claiming to be an AI research for more then 10 years. He also claims that he needs to spend a year studying math. Now most people even non math prodigies can get a B.S., M.S., and most of a PhD in the same amount of time.
EY also states his knowledge of math is tiny compared to a mathematician. How can this be 10 years studying math and a “prodigy” so math should be easy since he is as he claims so good at explaining it and he has a good sense for right answers half the time.
Now let me get this straight very little math knowledge compared to a mathematician. A math prodigy so its easy. Great taste in right answers. Yet after 10 years in a math field (AI) he doesn’t know that much math.
Most math people I know right math papers especially when they are good at it. Not EY in fact he doesn’t nor has he ever published a high level math paper. Anyone else confused?
EY please explain this puzzling issue to me.
If you include the time spent in elementary school, high school, and college, most people with a Ph.D in math have spent many, many years studying math...
Also, generally “prodigy” means that, as a child, one was far beyond one’s age group. If you’re learning algebra at 8 and calculus at 11, you’re a prodigy… even if you don’t yet know any math beyond the high school level.
That doesn’t feel sufficient to me. I usually interpret the word to imply achieving high levels of status while still a child (for example, winning national competitions, touring internationally as a perfomer, etc.). Merely learning stuff won’t do that.
XiXiDu?
XiXiDu’s grammatical quirks are subtle. Not outright errors like these, just lapses from idiomatic English. He’s also been comfortable questioning SIAI members publically under his own name.
In fact at least one of them—“the SIAI” with the definite article—has spread to the point of idiomaticity among significant portions of the LW community.