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jsteinhardt comments on What mathematics to learn - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 24 November 2011 08:10:32PM 1 point [-]

Agreed. Advice is trivial to give, especially in the abstract, and therefore likely to have a low signal-to-noise ratio. Extrapolating patterns after dealing with specific instances will probably increase the SNR substantially.