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I have the impression that at big universities maths is always the #1 topic in CS/ML. So its no surprise their graduates ask the same riddles as their profs.
by ju-st 9y ago
I have the impression that at big universities maths is always the #1 topic in CS/ML. So its no surprise their graduates ask the same riddles as their profs.
- chronic6h2 9y agoAs long as these riddles keep the web devs and infra engineers away from machine learning, I'm all for it. We must preserve the elite reputation associated with machine learning; not watered down by avergae engineers looking for a career change.
- stale2002 9y agoPeople have been doing statistics for decades, which is mostly all that machine learning is. Coming up with a fancy new buzz word for stuff that has been for decades, doesn't make something "elite".
- chronic6h2 9y agoThen why do machine learning scientists get paid multiples more than statisticians? Why do CS departments get far more funding for ML grants than the same grant branded from the statistics department? Say what you want about ML vs statistics, the fact is: in both academia and industry, machine learning is far sexier than statistics.
- mamon 9y agoYou know, statistics is a branch of mathematics, and mathematical education itself can be considered "elite", if for no other reason then for the irrational fear it induces in most of people. Most of high school graduates decides to pursue more "practical" topics like CS, leaving mathematics to those chosen few who dared to study it :)
- gaius 9y agoCS is discrete maths, which is not quite the same as statistics.
- screye 9y agoI personally know a few ML professors at my university who are not taking any CS grads as pHDs. They only want people with maths degrees. A lot of these CS professors are themselves maths grads.