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Rule #0: choose first principles over machine learning. ML is a last-resort for problems you don’t understand. There are lots of these, but understanding the p
by jl2718 8y ago
Rule #0: choose first principles over machine learning.
ML is a last-resort for problems you don’t understand. There are lots of these, but understanding the problem is better.
- gaius 8y agoYes and no. When I first started getting into this stuff I was amazed at the difference good feature selection and feature engineering made and I was meticulous about it. But in many real world cases now, an expert human can’t do it as well as quickly as a DNN running on multiple K80s. It all boils down to economics in the end.