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try a side project? when I think of fun ideas, I always notice how easy it is to bump into computationally hard or complicated stats/ML/math problems left and r
by t_mann 4y ago
try a side project? when I think of fun ideas, I always notice how easy it is to bump into computationally hard or complicated stats/ML/math problems left and right, even if it's just a simple game.
I remember one time when I realized this: a TV show character suggested building an app that lets you take a picture of someone's shoes and then give you links where you could buy them. It sounded a) like a pretty good business idea and b) crazy hard to build (the time the show aired was before the Deep Learning proliferation iirc).
- sawyna 4y agoI suppose even then you'd use a library which solves the problem rather than figure out and build the entire thing yourself. I do agree that algorithms are fun and the basic ones are probably useful in everyday work, but for anything complicated you'd rather use a proper library. It's also definitely good to have knowledge of their internal workings though.
- t_mann 4y agowith anything involving AI/ML, like the shoes-app, you'll likely still have to create or train a model to achieve exactly what you want it to do.
- nnoitra 4y agoIs this now a trivial problem because of Deep Learning?