Deep learning as an approach has the specific issue that already overconfident people can make shockingly fast progress and get to an 85% solution quickly by in

Deep learning as an approach has the specific issue that already overconfident people can make shockingly fast progress and get to an 85% solution quickly by investing a lot in low-difficulty labor like data set curation. This lends a crazy amount of misplaced confidence to the people involved as they start trying to get to the last few %. Most software people have instincts that are all wrong on this because it’s the opposite of the usual experience.