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I don't think they are making up arbitrary rules, I think it's problem solving. Brainstorming alternative solutions that are cost effective and solve the problem is a useful exercise. We shouldn't just blindly use machine learning because it's there.

I have this trick where I just pay for high quality, well researched news because I'm an adult and I realize that not everything should be free and maybe we should pay for some things.

People on HN like to complain about paying in data to use Google and Facebook and yet also consider it an affront that they have to pay money to journalists.

I don't know if we can equate complex geopolitics with creating a code base. Countries are not computers and people are not deterministic algorithms.

I believe the universal approximation theorem is for a single hidden layer. When more layers are added arbitrary functions can be approximated.

From section 4.6.2 of Tom Mitchell's Machine Learning book: "Arbitrary functions. Any function can be approximated to arbitrary accuracy by a network with three layers of units (Cybenko 1988)."

Robert Caro's series on LBJ is IMO possibly the greatest nonfiction work of the last century. The depth of research, the quality of writing, and the study of politics and power are what make the series so enticing. Sure the volumes are long, but it never seems like necessary information or too much detail and it never drags. I highly recommend reading at least one of the volumes.

I would also highly recommend "Gulag" by Anne Applebaum. She covers the entire history of the Gulag in great detail from the Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Empire.