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>That's a very bad analogy. People can become great musicians without ever learning music theory, since being a "musician" is such a wide category I disagree,
by tmh88j 7y ago
>That's a very bad analogy. People can become great musicians without ever learning music theory, since being a "musician" is such a wide category
I disagree, you're equating being good at something to being a world class expert. You can become a great python developer without ever knowing how the language implements a dictionary. You can't expect to remove the black box aspect from everything you use, that's just impossible.
- vecter 7y agoWe're not talking about being a great Python developer. We're talking about being a great applied ML practitioner. You simply cannot be good at that without having a firm grasp of the underlying math.
- tmh88j 7y agoThis was about how the content is learned, not what content is learned. >so anyone who benefits from this article should probably take a detour through a math book before continuing their Python ML, or else risk having beautiful code that implements nonsensical math. My response to that comment was you can learn both at the same time. I preferred to learn music theory while also learning how to play the guitar. I also preferred to learn mathematics subjects while applying them, such as machine learning.