Matsuoka Shuzo [松岡修造 ] - あきらめかけているあなた (NEVER GIVE UP!!) [English]
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters post it as a quick dose of encouragement, or as a joke reply.
What it is
A short English-subtitled clip of Shuzo Matsuoka, a retired Japanese tennis player turned motivational speaker, delivering a never-give-up pep talk. It is a well-known Japanese internet meme.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2018 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends throwaway29303 · 2021-06 · on “Google Is Dominating This Hidden Market with No Rules”
The consequence of all this: Websites, apps and advertisers providing consumers with everything from news, games and consumer goods make less money selling ads and have to fork over more money to exchanges and other intermediaries. According to industry studies, ad intermediaries take 30 to 50 percent of every trade. In other words, when your local gym buys $1,000 worth of advertising on a local news site, the exchanges and other industry players can take $500 of that, leaving websites and apps with just half. Who pays the price? Again, the consumer, through things like more expensive gym memberships and news subscriptions. Thank you so so so much, Ms. Srinivasan! You are very courageous for
Recommends ncr100 · 2023-01 · on “I've procrastinated working on my thesis for more than a year”
For a different phase .. if you find your way beyond the current(?) association between the work and an understandable repulsive toxicity experience .. this brief inspirational vid may help with the hard slog needed to finish: [this video] <3, stranger
Cites BucketSort · 2018-01 · on “Ask HN: How to Seriously Start with Machine Learning and AI”
I'm very adamant that if you really want to be an AI researcher, it starts with the mathematics. Multi-variable calculus, linear algebra,discrete math, probability and statistics are key. The classic books and courses others have suggested are excellent starting points. I'll also say something here that isn't established, so I may take some heat. I believe there are two main paths in AI that will eventually converge to general AI: symbolic and sub-symbolic reasoning. If you go the path of symbolic reasoning, studying functional programming, theory of computation,type theory, natural language processing/compilers are in your future. If you go the path of sub-symbolic reasoning, you will be cl