I read this exact advice often here on HN and I can’t help but wonder.
Is the person writing it just repeating something they read? Is it just because they like the ´coding from first principles’ aesthetics?
I mean let’s imagine that someone does read that paper, and manage to replicate the code (quite an effort from someone coming from outside AI and academia).
Then what? I doubt it’s particularly illuminating. That doesn’t really qualify for a job by itself. So what’s the goal there? Is it just a thing to say to look like a cool hacker that code from scratch?
Is the person writing it just repeating something they read? Is it just because they like the ´coding from first principles’ aesthetics?
I mean let’s imagine that someone does read that paper, and manage to replicate the code (quite an effort from someone coming from outside AI and academia).
Then what? I doubt it’s particularly illuminating. That doesn’t really qualify for a job by itself. So what’s the goal there? Is it just a thing to say to look like a cool hacker that code from scratch?