<story><title>Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)</title><url>https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tysam_and</author><text>[flagged]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JanneVee</author><text>&amp;gt; As an aside and a comment on the article, I feel dismayed by the author&amp;#x27;s decision to include the &amp;#x27;go brrr&amp;#x27; meme. It&amp;#x27;s connected with toxic sentiment and communities from where it&amp;#x27;s generally used, and is oftentimes used to needlessly mock a group of people. There was good content in reading the article, but it turned me off at the beginning as it was rather childish -- in not-a-pleasant way -- and unfunny, and it made the rest of the article hard to read with that taste in my mouth.&lt;p&gt;I have questions...&lt;p&gt;Is the author aware of the toxic communities and their use of the meme or is the author a member of these toxic communities?
Is it the authors intent to exclude you in anyway when using the meme?&lt;p&gt;And if there a bunch of &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; answers above: Why is it the authors responsibility to keep track with your associations with this meme?</text></comment>
<story><title>Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)</title><url>https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tysam_and</author><text>[flagged]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>&amp;gt; As an aside and a comment on the article, I feel dismayed by the author&amp;#x27;s decision to include the &amp;#x27;go brrr&amp;#x27; meme. It&amp;#x27;s connected with toxic sentiment and communities from where it&amp;#x27;s generally used, and is oftentimes used to needlessly mock a group of people.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just a meme. No need to read too much into it.&lt;p&gt;In this case, the meme came from &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gwern.net&amp;#x2F;scaling-hypothesis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gwern.net&amp;#x2F;scaling-hypothesis&lt;/a&gt;. I doubt that Gwern was making fun of any particular group, except perhaps those that disagree with the bitter lesson.</text></comment>