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It's a nice presentation, although IMO there are better introductory talks, even on the same site.

What's funny about this one though is that over half of the comments say "she's cute" or something similar, it's a bit creepy.

> What's funny about this one though is that over half of the comments say "she's cute" or something similar, it's a bit creepy.

That's one of the main reasons because I like hn.

It's creepy because some people think she's physically attractive? I don't follow.

It's creepy because they don't resist the urge to comment on it.

Maybe it would be less creepy if there were more young women interested in statistics, machine learning etc. and who commented in a similar fan-girlish manner on male lecturers. But then again ...

You never hear women described as creepy for saying "he's cute" or something similar.

On the other hand, you usually don't see a majority of comments on male presenters saying "he's cute".

Not that I disagree with you. But HN is not sufficiently female dominated for such a thing to conceivably happen :)

Men's looks are brought up far less often to begin with. (By either gender.)

Yesterday I was reading a highly caustic anti-BoingBoing screed. Everything about the male writer was idealogical. Almost everything about the female writer was about her looks.

This is where somebody on HN might ask for "citation please." In this case, I think that would be a bit disingenuous.

That's because it's not creepy when girls do it. Creepy in this sense is used for unwanted attention from "unworthy" males, the female equivalent of this behaviour would usually at most be described as annoying.

Can you point to some of the better introductory talks? Thanks.

I liked Marcus Hutter's tutorials on the same site: "Introduction to ML" and "Foundations ..." but not the "Universal AI" stuff. Then there are the Stanford ML lectures.

I admit that the topic is not 100% the same though but there is overlap.

As per the guidelines, it's polite to put "[video]" in the title if it's a self-starting video. I had 25 tabs open when suddenly the machine started talking to me and I had to work out which tab it was to stop it.

While I do agree that a [video] tag would've been nice, I'll also recommend you get FlashBlock for whatever browser you're using.

(Sorry for blatant OT)

Video doesn't load. I wish those people where using some other well tested video platform.

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