Since we’re all tossing in our takes. My take is that a lot of the people who are picking on Stranger are because he disagreed with them on one of their precious topics. It’s certainly possible that he is wrong in some areas, but I’ve not seen it in any topic I’m familiar with. Wolfpup doesn’t like that Stranger doesn’t fellate the dicks of the LLM gods. Chessic_Sense is pretty much always wrong about everything, but his beef with Stranger seems to be around the shutdown. If Dallas_Jones didn’t like me, my day would be made. Saint_Cad will never be in the same league as Sabine Hossenfelder, whose name he can’t even spell correctly. If that’s the peanut gallery picking on Stranger, then I don’t feel swayed.
I certainly haven’t read all of his posts, but when it comes to data science related topics, he absolutely knows his stuff, probably far better than me and I managed DS teams for a good 12 years before retiring. Chronos gets nitpicky with me on occasion, but it’s probably warranted for the most part, so I brush it off. If he goes over the line, I’ll tell him to fuck off (in the appropriate forum). Same with Stranger. What I’m absolutely NOT going to do is fart around in a thread throwing accusations at either of two highly intelligent posters without at least a few links to back me up.