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Lumifer comments on An update on Signal Data Science (an intensive data science training program) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 10 April 2016 01:15:56AM 2 points [-]

I'm not personally comfortable with your comment

That's OK, this is not a requirement :-/ Fluttershy is clearly speaking from his/her personal point of view. If your experience was different, that's fine but that does not devalue the experience of other people.

it would be bad if that fact ended up discouraging applicants for whom the program would be a great fit.

The situation is symmetric: it would also be bad if some fact ended up encouraging applicants for whom the program would be a bad fit.