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Statistics. Modern AI is automated statistics. A sound understanding of statistics will also help them comprehend economics, finance, political science, and h
by inphovore 4y ago
Statistics.
Modern AI is automated statistics.
A sound understanding of statistics will also help them comprehend economics, finance, political science, and have a better chance of bullshit detection.
- version_five 4y ago> Modern AI is automated statistics. Only in the narrowest possible sense. If we're optimizing for AI (which we shouldn't), linear algebra is what's most important, specifically matrix manipulation
- an1sotropy 4y agoBut also still some (vector) calc, to have an intuition for what a gradient is, and how linear algebra informs computation of each step of optimization