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I guess he means you don't need advanced knowledge of learning theory in order to apply machine learning algorithms. Not sure if I agree. It's always good to kn
by levesque 8y ago
I guess he means you don't need advanced knowledge of learning theory in order to apply machine learning algorithms. Not sure if I agree. It's always good to know the limits of the algorithms you are using, but it does require a time investment.
- commandlinefan 8y agoThere's a philosophy that, once an algorithm has been discovered, you don't really need to understand it to put it into practice. Why understand how sort algorithms work when "sort" is already built into every library? I'd be curious to see some sort of scientific or formal study on that, but in my experience, the people who view most algorithms as black boxes - they understand more or less what you get out when you put in the right things, but have no interest on how it gets to that point - can produce applications that do work correctly under optimum conditions, but fail in surprising ways when faced with unexpected input.