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Leave it to programmers to completely dismiss another field, in which they have no knowledge or experience, in two sentences.
by FranzFerdiNaN 6y ago
Leave it to programmers to completely dismiss another field, in which they have no knowledge or experience, in two sentences.
- jacobush 6y agoI have heard it from lawyers too. I think it's very human.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoOther fields are rarely rigorous, and often misuse science. If the dismissive attitude is present, it has foundations. And wishing that another field used legitimate statistics is hardly 'dismissive'. Its a reasonable question. The answer might be "because they don't know how".
- mumblemumble 6y agoProgrammers accusing other fields of not being rigorous is like the pot calling the enamelware kettle black. This is a field where favored practices in machine learning come and go at a furious pace, often based on the results of a single paper that didn't even attempt to isolate the new idea they're presenting as the primary cause of their result, as opposed to the 10 other variables they mention in the paper and that everyone knows can make a big difference, but that they didn't bother to control for. Other fields might not be uniformly meticulous about isolating confounding variables, but at least there's a common understanding that it's good to try.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoSo? How does that make them wrong?
- goto11 6y agoRemember when HN wowed to disrupt Hollywood? Because surely it couldn't be that hard to make better movies and tv.