Is there any version of Dan Luu's website with just a hint of css? Plain HTML is unreadable imho, content is usually great but I struggle to get through it because it's so damn hard on the eyes.
I'm also using flashcards and the Anki app to memorise syntax. I got sick of looking up the difference between list.append and list.extend and all kinds of small things. Hope it helps...
I love how the author shouts from the rooftops the following
>This argument is both incredibly entitled and terribly egocentric (...)
While this whole post reeks with entitlement and egocentrism - but from his perspective, so that is OK!
To me, it feels like the author is incapable of empathising with a larger user base than himself and only thinks about his benefit and how the changes affect him and how he uses the product.
>Let me be clear: when I buy a product I am paying for what the product can do for me now. It fulfils a need that I currently have. I am not paying money out of my own pocket for a faint hope that the product may do something in the vague and nebulous future.
This is simply not true. Depending on what you buy (a physical product like a bike) or a software subscription (like photoshop), you get those upgrades whether you want it or not. You don't want it? Then DONT BUY THE PRODUCT. Customers have the ultimate power: voting with their wallet. You don't like it? You go to the freaking competitor!
I understand the authors frustrations but customers have the ultimate final say in anything by voting with their wallet.
Love this article. It makes statistics enjoyable and accessible. Most of Olah's old stuff is also really good, especially the one on manifolds and neural networks [1]