All I know is that when a class starts with 'elementary' or 'fundamentals of' you had best buckle up.

Algebraic too.

There's also the opposite in physics though, "modern" means from the 60s with square roots drawn in manually.

That's code for 101.

No. It's code for the thickest, densest book on the subject that you're ever gonna not read, as it actually assumes you're experienced in the subject and goes into everything except intro level topics.

See e.g. Petzold, et al.

I'm getting flashbacks to Spivak, who wrote a 2000 page "introduction" to differential geometry.

To be fair to Spivak, he did say it was comprehensive introduction. :)

Think i'd be ok with a year and a half halt for things in general every now and again.

I think this is a good perspective for problem solving generally - just establishing a simple (ideally effective, it not then call it naieve) standard of comparison to base further decisions off of.

They gave enough detail that its clear from context what 'had to' meant.

Motherfucker you try to take my fork while I'm eating and you're going to get a stabbed hand. Are forks addicting?

You may be a bit emotionally invested in this topic if you feel you're getting a lot of information from that exchange.

Why do you think so?

Simply because it was an information poor exchange.

Because you’ve posted a dozen times here and it seems to be about the only topic you post on.

What topic do you mean?

What topic do you think? I was in another thread and saw someone post this completely independent of me noticing it:

“There's definitely some people working overtime to overhype AI on here. like 50% of the comments on this are from simianwords who only posts when people say negative AI sentiments.”

It is absolutely one of the better benefits of this forum

Title is misleading, there is an open discussion on the topic with someone raising valid points and a clear escalation method that involves a vote from another group.

Yeah you can, though to be fair its referred to as jevons paradox because it is counterintuitive.

I’m not saying it’s inefficient. I’m saying cloud computing uses a lot of power.

What about it is whitewashing? This seems like it would be a great resource if you wanted to contextualize the argument you're gesturing at.