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jesus man the constant switching of inflection due to jump cuts and shitty jokes was irritating. This is the stuff I always hate about your videos, and in general any "how to code an AI that does ___ with only < 10 lines of python". No you're giving me an extremely generic framework, and some vague direction that i can read off the linked page (the 9 lines), not how to actually write all these things, those are like afterthoughts in the video, more work goes into the click-baity titles and thumbnails then actual substantive information.

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Whoa. Please don't be nasty like that here, even when someone's video has flaws.

Actually many of us can empathize with the feeling of not getting detailed information—the real goods—when it's want you want and you know you're capable of absorbing it. But this is a bad way to express such a strong feeling on Hacker News. A good way might be to give someone the benefit of the doubt and explain what you'd really like without insulting them.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13104019 and marked it off-topic.

Making a technical video for a general audience is real challenge. This video succeeds in that regard.

The audio cuts are likely because he had a deadline that didn't allow him to completely re-record the audio. I appreciate he inserted clips that added clarity despite knowing that he'd get negative comments for that effort.

Thanks for creating this video and sharing.

Agreed, I'd rather have the condensed information the video provided today than to wait for a more refined version.

You could have made these criticisms without the hugely inflammatory language.

Your comment comes off as needlessly abrasive; it reads as something intended to wound rather than edify.

I agree with you. You are most likely being downvoted by his fans. But this video (and all his others apparently) is empty of substance.

From my experience HN users will down vote if a comment comes across as uncivil, as at least three commenters have already noted. How you say it matters on HN.

I bet you have some far superior videos for your own open source projects--why don't you post links to those babies so we can learn how to do it right?

I never made that argument.

I made the argument that nearly every single one of this guy's videos are not the least bit helpful in actually learning how machine learning works, and gets viewed based on click-baity title and click-bait thumbnails (attractive girls a lot of the time). Which i will stand by. Every one of them is "how to write an AI that ___" when its importing tensorflow, setting 2-3 hyper parameters then letting it run.

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