meta: I’ve really enjoyed these posts where you’ve been willing to publicly boggle at things and this is my favorite so far. I wanted to more than upvote because I know how hard these sorts of posts can be to write. Sometimes they’re easy to write when they’re generated by rant-mode, but then hard to post knowing that our rant-mode might wind up feeling attacked, and rant-mode is good and valuable and to be encouraged.
Yeah, this one was especially difficult in that way. I spent a long time trying to articulate the idea in a way that made any sense, and kept adding framing context to the beginning to make the stuff closer to what I wanted to say make more sense—the idea that the post was about the credit assignment algorithm came very late in the process. I definitely agree that rant-mode feels very vulnerable to attack.
meta: I’ve really enjoyed these posts where you’ve been willing to publicly boggle at things and this is my favorite so far. I wanted to more than upvote because I know how hard these sorts of posts can be to write. Sometimes they’re easy to write when they’re generated by rant-mode, but then hard to post knowing that our rant-mode might wind up feeling attacked, and rant-mode is good and valuable and to be encouraged.
Yeah, this one was especially difficult in that way. I spent a long time trying to articulate the idea in a way that made any sense, and kept adding framing context to the beginning to make the stuff closer to what I wanted to say make more sense—the idea that the post was about the credit assignment algorithm came very late in the process. I definitely agree that rant-mode feels very vulnerable to attack.