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Making a serious, industrial scale web app in 2000 felt like alchemy. It was all arcane, there were no established patterns, nobody knew how to do it for sure,
by sonnyblarney 8y ago
Making a serious, industrial scale web app in 2000 felt like alchemy. It was all arcane, there were no established patterns, nobody knew how to do it for sure, there were a lot of hustlers, most of them thankfully sincere.
When something is new, it feels like a mystery - eventually we'll have a language for wrapping our heads around neural networks, even if it's not as clear cut as we'd like.
- brain5ide 8y agoWe had the neural networks, and the language. The problem is with the rebranding and the amount of marketing bullshit comming with it. The null hypothesis is that apl of that most of it is a pile of crap, for an overengineered, overoptimized solutions that are probably applied at abstraction layer different from one they are marketed on. There may come solution out of it, but it's more wishfull thinking than not.
- ramblerman 8y agoI understand what you are getting at, but I would call that a new frontier. There was ultimately nothing black box about the code we cobbled together back then.