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A company called Bonsai joins a movement to democratize machine learning
- RodericDay 10y ago> If you are a strong-armed NFL quarterback who reads defenses like genre fiction, a movie star whose name alone can open a film in China, or a stock picker who beats Buffet every time, congratulations: you are almost as valuable as a data scientist or machine learning engineer with a PhD from Stanford, MIT, or Carnegie Mellon. who reads this garbage?
- varelse 10y agoIt's more like Rock, Paper, Scissors, Data Scientist, except: NFL quarterback crushes puny data scientist Movie star steals data scientist's girlfriend Stock picker acqui-hires data scientist's company on the downturn for pennies on the dollar
- tree_of_item 10y agoOh god, it's happening to machine learning too. The call for "rockstars" and "ninjas". Web development was already eaten by this garbage, can we just not this time?
- asimuvPR 10y agoThe barrier to entry is still fairly high. ML still lacks a "PHP". But not for a long time. Hardware and software will eventually catch up and offer easy ti use components (something im researching).
- meeper16 10y agoYou don't democratize intelligence+hard work or invention. These are rare commodities for a reason. It would be like democratizing money.
- Houshalter 10y agoExtremely trivial pet peeve, but I hate the word "democratize". In what way does this introduce a democratic voting system to AI? Why do they use this word? Because it summons vague positive connotations people have with "democracy"?
- inlineint 10y ago"Democratize" word meanings from the Oxford dictionary: 1) introduce a democratic system or democratic principles to: public institutions need to be democratized. 2) make (something) accessible to everyone: mass production has not democratized fashion. The second one seems to be exactly what they say about their system.
- Houshalter 10y agoYes I know they aren't the first person to use the word that way, it still bothers me. I didn't know this abuse had become widespread enough to warrant an addition to the dictionary.
- swsieber 10y agoI think you are mistaken as to the recency of this definiton. According to wikitionary, the definition : "Exhibiting social equality, egalitarian" for the word "democratic" dates back to 1915.
- Houshalter 10y agoI checked wiktionary before posting and did not see that. Where do you see that? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/democratize https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/democratize EDIT: Ah, ok, it's under "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/democratic" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/democratic". But I'm still not seeing 1915 there. EDIT2: Ok it was hidden under an expandable.
- rororororo 10y agoIt bothers me as well...
- ilostmykeys 10y agoSwitch Democratize with Capitalize and you get the BS free version as a side effect.
- rororororo 10y agoToo much bullshit