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So much of the ML hype is business people wanting something that everyone can operate equally poorly. The fact that so much of ML is inscrutable alchemy and a
by Ericson2314 5y ago
So much of the ML hype is business people wanting something that everyone can operate equally poorly.
The fact that so much of ML is inscrutable alchemy and a guessing game is a feature not bug.
- kthejoker2 5y agoBut ML (from a pure programming perspective) is just a lot of mathematical functions being strung together, usually as part of high level libraries. If you truly have good data, approximating a signal from noise is trivial. It's way less complicated code than, say, your bank's web app and payments system.
- amalcon 5y agoSo is everything else in software. Literally everything a computer can do is a form of math; it only seems like you're ever doing something not-math because we've made some very good abstractions over the math.