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I don't get this article at all. The author does not really back up their argument with any examples of ML. What in the world does common marketing practice & s
by 40four 9y ago
I don't get this article at all. The author does not really back up their argument with any examples of ML. What in the world does common marketing practice & seemingly basic SQL queries have to do with AI/ML? What am I missing here? To me, this just sounds like a "Get off my lawn" type of rant. "Why do we need the newfangled AI when we still have good ole' SQL & bash!(waving fist in the air)"
On the other hand comments are talking about hiring data scientists for months if not a year or more (yikes!) To clean data & wait for it ... perform linear regression. To me this sounds like a great application of machine learning. Couldn't someone train some models to clean the data, then do one of the things ML does best, linear regression, in a fraction of the time the human data scientists could do it in?
- ashelmire 9y agoData cleaning is reeeally messy. It requires a lot of training data to get a system that does even a bad job of it automatically. So you still end up needing a lot of clean data, and getting the system to that point probably isn’t worth it if you’re not one of the biggest tech companies (you can spend time creating a system to clean the data or just clean the data). But your other points are spot on. This article is garbage.
- 40four 9y agoI see what you're saying about cleaning the data. This is something I'm very unfamiliar with, so good to know! Yeah I think the article is garbage too, makes me wonder why it gained so much traction? The argument/ topic are not developed at all. I guess the point they were going for is there are people who want to use ML because it's 'trendy' or something, and simpler solutions would suffice. I could see that being true, but this article is BAD. I hate seeing low quality articles get rewarded.