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Hi guys, I'm the person who wrote the article. I perfectly know that the title is an exaggeration, but choosing an headline for medium is a tough job :) The r

Hi guys, I'm the person who wrote the article. I perfectly know that the title is an exaggeration, but choosing an headline for medium is a tough job :) The reason why I chose to call it like this, is not just to get a couple of clicks, but because while talking to companies that are not ML-aware I often get the question: "how the hell does X do that?!?!?", and the answer 80% of the time could be 4 lines of sklearn. My goal is to spread awareness on the potential of ML among companies: my intended audience was not ML engineers, to whom this article looks more like "I spent 6 days cleaning data, 20 minutes plotting different clusters representations, and the rest of the day writing an article", but the business person that is not fully aware of what it means to use ML today, and to whom it looks like something amazing and extremely valuable. Does it make more sense now? :D

minimaxir 10y ago
As the top comment on this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965043 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965043) demonstrates, the title is misleading at best, and I do not believe you want to intentionally mislead your readers. Rhetorical smiley faces do not change that. Keep in mind that clickbait titles do get penalized on Hacker News, as dang notes.
- gianlucahmd 10y ago
  I didn't even post it on HN, you guys aren't my target as I explained. I'm trying to make business execs more eager to experiment ML in their companies, and less afraid about the years of R&D and skynet scenarios they currently relate AI to. The title was an hyperbole? Yes, but it worked in getting the attention of my target audience. Anyone trying to work as an ML engineer knows that what I did is simple and far from being worth $500M, but should still thank me for spreading awareness on the potential of this technology among who's still scared.

minimaxir 10y ago

As the top comment on this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965043 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965043) demonstrates, the title is misleading at best, and I do not believe you want to intentionally mislead your readers. Rhetorical smiley faces do not change that. Keep in mind that clickbait titles do get penalized on Hacker News, as dang notes.

gianlucahmd 10y ago
I didn't even post it on HN, you guys aren't my target as I explained. I'm trying to make business execs more eager to experiment ML in their companies, and less afraid about the years of R&D and skynet scenarios they currently relate AI to. The title was an hyperbole? Yes, but it worked in getting the attention of my target audience. Anyone trying to work as an ML engineer knows that what I did is simple and far from being worth $500M, but should still thank me for spreading awareness on the potential of this technology among who's still scared.