Reminds me of Schmidhuber. ‘In this paper we present the optimally optimal optimizer, which optimizes optimally across all meta levels and also optimizes its own optimization optimally.’ [ETA: I’m not actually quoting Schmidhuber, merely parodying him. I was for some reason under the impression that single quotes were commonly used to paraphrase people.]
I thought to myself for a little while whether you were quoting an actual quote or just made it up, since optimal optimization really does sound like something Schmidhuber might write about, and concluded it felt like a real quote at 40%.
Gwern is apparently familiar with more quoting styles than I, because no style I’m familiar with allows quote marks of any kind for something that isn’t a direct quote.
Reminds me of Schmidhuber. ‘In this paper we present the optimally optimal optimizer, which optimizes optimally across all meta levels and also optimizes its own optimization optimally.’ [ETA: I’m not actually quoting Schmidhuber, merely parodying him. I was for some reason under the impression that single quotes were commonly used to paraphrase people.]
I thought to myself for a little while whether you were quoting an actual quote or just made it up, since optimal optimization really does sound like something Schmidhuber might write about, and concluded it felt like a real quote at 40%.
Then Googling, I think you made it up.
Don’t single quotes normally indicate paraphrasing?
Under some quoting styles, yes, they do. But no quoting style is so prevalent that this alone decides the question.
Gwern is apparently familiar with more quoting styles than I, because no style I’m familiar with allows quote marks of any kind for something that isn’t a direct quote.
No. Quotes, single or double, normally indicate quotation, or a few other things such as the use-mention distinction, but never paraphrasing.
I was taught that single quotes are nested inside double quotes and vice versa, the default being double, but that they’re otherwise equivalent.
Maybe you’re thinking of scare quotes or glosses, but they’re normally restricted to single words or short phrases.