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That's the point - to explain how people in the field are thinking about this stuff. Most people outside SV don't know what the experts in the field are saying.
by benedictevans 8y ago
That's the point - to explain how people in the field are thinking about this stuff. Most people outside SV don't know what the experts in the field are saying. Indeed, many people in SV don't know this ;) If you already know all of this, you're not the target audience.
- AndrewKemendo 8y agoThat's fair enough. It's a running joke with applied ML people that half of your job, if you have any sense of professionalism, is convincing possible clients that no, they probably don't need to use a 41 layer DNN to send a follow up email.
- benedictevans 8y agoA database consultant once told me that half his gigs were telling people with a database to use Excel
- boxy310 8y agoFunny - half of my experiences talking with nonprofits were telling people with an Access database to migrate to a proper SQL database.
- adw 8y agoIt's exactly the kind of thing I want to share with non-technical decision makers (as a practitioner).