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The article you link ends on a pretty weak claim, math didn't obsolete biologists and ML won't obsolete systems folks, but every time you write a heuristic you
by Eridrus 9y ago
The article you link ends on a pretty weak claim, math didn't obsolete biologists and ML won't obsolete systems folks, but every time you write a heuristic you would probably get better results from a model.
- robotresearcher 9y agoA heuristic is a model. A successful heuristic encodes knowledge of the distributions at hand. Heuristics are designed by people who had good insight into the data rather than learned directly from data, but they are models in the same sense.
- chubot 9y agoIt's not anywhere near as simple as "replace heuristic with model". This paper is a good one to disabuse yourself of that notion: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html This is from the team at Google with the longest experience deploying machine learning (early 2000's, pre-deep learning). (Contrary to popular belief, machine learning was basically unused in Google's search ranking until pretty recently.)