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But I thought I made it clear that I am not looking to do research. I'm not even looking for state of the art performance. I am looking for that 30% of the skil
by blahi 10y ago
But I thought I made it clear that I am not looking to do research. I'm not even looking for state of the art performance. I am looking for that 30% of the skills which allow me to do 70% of the tasks. Like RMS. Because outside of Google/Microsoft/Amazon et al, domain knowledge beats superior math skills 10 out of 10 times.
- apathy 10y agoYou should do whatever you like, but remember that domain knowledge and math skills are not mutually exclusive. If the problem you need to solve for a major customer or project happens to be in that 30%, it may come in handy. Linear algebra and calculus (to a lesser degree) are foundational for a great many things. Got missing data? K-NN or nuclear norm matrix completion (or marginalizing over the rest) can help. Systems of differential equations? Use a matrix exponential. You are free to do whatever you like. A bus driver doesn't need to know how to rebuild an engine. But if you want to race cars you'll get a lot further if you do know how.
- blahi 10y agoIf I have missing values, I can use multiple imputation or even simple averaging and the hit I will take will be negligible. I simply do not work in the remaining 30%. I can tell if the work is going to be above my head and refuse the project in those cases. So after all this back and forth, I still don't know if there is a book similar to RMS in scope, for Bayesian Nets.
- apathy 10y agoTry http://www.r-bayesian-networks.org http://www.r-bayesian-networks.org