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> People complaining about having to implement backprop in a ML class? Wouldn't that suggest that other classes the students take have not been academic enough
by vertex-four 10y ago
> People complaining about having to implement backprop in a ML class?
Wouldn't that suggest that other classes the students take have not been academic enough - i.e. that they focus too much on "things you might use day-to-day" vs "this is how/why things work"?
- tnecniv 10y agoThis attitude is not uncommon in programming / CS. It's similar to those who pine about learning a half dozen search algorithms when they rarely need to implement them in practice.