Disclaimer: This work is done by some of my colleagues.
As someone pointed out, there are 25 pages of text (not including bibliography of course), not 5.
Most publications are coming with multiple months delay before code release (if any), here you literally have a written soft deadline of 1 week. So maybe you can wait few days before posting such bad comment?
> I'm also not going to pay a subscription fee to every site I come across that might have a decently written article once in a while.
What if the site was consistenly putting decent articles? I think one of the argument is that you would see more of those decent articles if people were more enclined to follow a subscription model where the journal is accountable to its customers.
My experience seems to resonate with a good amount of ppl here. I graduated from a very average university and my grades were a roller-coaster, I tend to prefer learning in depth topics that I'm interested into rather than study for exam and that led me to difficult times. I went to a more prestigious university for exchange and to my surprise students were not better in in-depth understanding but even more exam-smart...
One thing I've ended thinking is that University is just not good for learning in-depth (at least my field of computer engineering) I'm way better at that on my own, what it was good at tho is helping me building a map of knowledge of concepts I was not aware of, I'm thankful I discovered ML in a class which then became my passion and career.
Or just to do what he did. Ian Goodfellow and probably all his team will have no problem finding another job in the condition they want. Apple don't have any monopole on AI jobs.