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Remember reading that thread the developer was saying something like "this is an ML library, not a statistics library". The subtext he is trying to convey is.
by xiaodai 7y ago
Remember reading that thread the developer was saying something like "this is an ML library, not a statistics library". The subtext he is trying to convey is. I do ML! I am a higher-being. If you want statistically accurate function names then I don't care about you. Because you are likely a statistician, a lower being than me! I am a ML practitioner, a HIGHER-being. I don't take shit from lower-beings like you". What an arsehole.
- rjeli 7y agoHaha, I read it the exact opposite way. This is ML, not statistics - we’re not publishing, aren’t obsessed with rigor, we just want to scrape some sites and spit out a house price predictor in a few hours :)
- _Wintermute 7y agoI read it as the opposite, lot's of people looking down at the sklearn devs and poking fun, thinking they've made some mistake because they don't understand the basics of statistics. When really the developers explained their decision that the default parameters made the most sense for sklearn's use-case.
- xiaodai 7y agoThe article already explained there is way in the world the L2 hyperparameter is set to 1. The only way to get the correct parameter is to use CV.