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Well, their strategy of blaming the nerds will at least ensure that they never have the opportunity to bet big on ML again. No one competent will want to work f
by civilized 5y ago
Well, their strategy of blaming the nerds will at least ensure that they never have the opportunity to bet big on ML again. No one competent will want to work for them now.
- wussboy 5y agoI wish this was true but I suspect it is not. If Facebook can still have excellent engineers because they pay a ton of money, then so can Zillow.
- ivanyahoocom 5y agoZillow has always paid low compared to the market. They never got the “top nerds” and this was really a CEO problem. I would never bet on that company on any decently complex technology like predictive models. It took them years to make their model decent, something that a machine learning tutorial does better - just a linear regression on square feet and location. They were literally comparing my house to ones on the other side of the city - comparing a downtown property with outskirts.
- selcuka 5y agoTo be honest linear regression on square feet and location is what potential (human) buyers would mentally use, therefore it's a very, very accurate prediction of the price.