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As someone who works in search relevance, having just a great algorithm isn't worth much. You need all the team and know-how that has the maturity to maintain
by softwaredoug 3y ago
As someone who works in search relevance, having just a great algorithm isn't worth much.
You need all the team and know-how that has the maturity to maintain such an algorithm. Not just the ML skills. But all the bazillion ops, data quality, and many other things that go around it.
I've worked with a lot of teams that have one smart person building stuff off to the side, in R or a Notebook, and then nobody knows how to productionize it. They try to throw the algorithm over the fence. Even if the team somehow succeeds in getting it into an A/B test, it eventually falls by the wayside, unless they can build the team and workflow around that person / algorithm / methodology
- whimsicalism 3y ago> I've worked with a lot of teams that have one smart person building stuff off to the side, in R or a Notebook, and then nobody knows how to productionize it. They try to throw the algorithm over the fence. Even if the team somehow succeeds in getting it into an A/B test, it eventually falls by the wayside, unless they can build a team and workflow around that person / algorithm / methodology. In my view, this marks a cultural failure - and certainly not on the part of the 'one smart person.'
- softwaredoug 3y ago100%. I totally agree. I've both been the person and the team here. And it suucks when you see how things could be done better.
- geoduck14 3y agoYou are definitely right. The problem to solve quickly becomes process and not technical