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Fisher Information is under the "Kindergarten" section? Maybe I've just been interviewing at the wrong places, I'd be very curious if anyone here has been aske
by time_to_smile 5y ago
Fisher Information is under the "Kindergarten" section?
Maybe I've just been interviewing at the wrong places, I'd be very curious if anyone here has been asked to even explain Fisher information in any DS interview?
It's not that Fisher information is a particularly tricky topic, but I certainly wouldn't put it as a "must know" for even the most junior of data scientists. Not that I wouldn't mind living in a world where this was the case... just not sure I live in the same world as the authors.
- sdenton4 5y agoWhen I was a mathematician it was pretty common to make jokes whenever we actually had to evaluate an integral, along the lines of 'think back to your elementary-school calculus...'
- lp251 5y ago“integrate by parts, like you learned in middle school” tf middle school did you go to?!
- light_hue_1 5y agoIt's a joke. Like, we joke that the more math you learn the less arithmetic you can do (ok, maybe that one isn't a joke).
- rindalir 5y agoIn my undergrad abstract algebra class our professor asked us a question about finding the order of a group that involved dividing 32/8 and we all just sat there for ten seconds before someone bravely ventured "...four?"
- jpindar 5y agoI've experienced that many times among groups of electrical engineers - we're all fine discussing equations but once its time to plug in the numbers no one wants to volunteer an answer.