It's not about you. Math does not exist to exclude you. People who use math are not trying to exclude you, they are just trying to make their jobs easier. Math can be just as accessible as this ML material when taught properly.
If your point is that more effort needs to be made to teach advanced topics in accessible ways, well, duh. That's a straw man.
I'm sorry that you feel so alienated from institutions like Stanford that you feel the need to compare their students to "wall street elite" that "do not care about the rest of the population" who "deserve what they get" for "being dumb." I think this rhetoric is out of line on HN.
If the author wrote, "CS 229A lets in the riff raff, I don't like those people" then you'd have a point. But that's not what he wrote. He's simply looking to learn more and get his money's worth. As others here pointed out, he probably should have taken the full CS 229 instead.
It's not about you. Math does not exist to exclude you. People who use math are not trying to exclude you, they are just trying to make their jobs easier. Math can be just as accessible as this ML material when taught properly.
If your point is that more effort needs to be made to teach advanced topics in accessible ways, well, duh. That's a straw man.
I'm sorry that you feel so alienated from institutions like Stanford that you feel the need to compare their students to "wall street elite" that "do not care about the rest of the population" who "deserve what they get" for "being dumb." I think this rhetoric is out of line on HN.
If the author wrote, "CS 229A lets in the riff raff, I don't like those people" then you'd have a point. But that's not what he wrote. He's simply looking to learn more and get his money's worth. As others here pointed out, he probably should have taken the full CS 229 instead.