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bomatson | 10 years ago

You could also apply these same skills within NLP (Natural Language Processing), replacing "Sports" with "Linguistics" and provide a lot more positive net impact on the world

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true_religion|10 years ago

True, perhaps... but whenever I'm learning something for fun, I apply it to something without any applicable human benefit.

I dabbled in machine learning algorithms... but just so I could play board games with my computer. As a student, I think it matters less what you're applying your emerging knowledge to.