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If it is that simple I am wasting my time in my current job.
by monkeynotes 8y ago
If it is that simple I am wasting my time in my current job.
- Larrikin 8y agoI got a book on TF last year and saw all the examples were fairly short and was impressed with the power. However it took me a good three months before I could reason about why reach line was there. It's pretty complex stuff that takes a while to even understand, let alone actually write.
- monkeynotes 8y agoAfter I wrote the above comment I remembered that just because there are few lines of code doesn't mean it's trivial to compose those actual lines. Some of the most elegant code is terse, but it takes years of education, experience, and intelligence to be able to produce that logic.
- opportune 8y agoA lot of machine learning in particular is like that. The best practitioners have very strong intuitive understandings of the data and the modeling problem, which is what allows them to construct effective models (wrt capacity, training algorithm, topology, use of certain optional training procedure additions). I would liken their job to that of a doctor writing a prescription: it doesn't take much to write the prescription itself, but it takes mastery to be able to analyze the problem and write the best prescription
- mickronome 8y agoThe algorithm could be simple. Evaluating all failure cases, analysing them, and getting the whole lot approved certainly isn't simple.