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I probably shouldn’t take the bait here, but this reads like someone took intro to ML and thinks that’s all there is to know. “Just” fitting a curve couldn’t be

I probably shouldn’t take the bait here, but this reads like someone took intro to ML and thinks that’s all there is to know. “Just” fitting a curve couldn’t be more reductionist and discount the work of a ton of incredibly intelligent people. I tend to agree that I don’t really find ML work all that interesting (much more interested in making it go fast :)), but simple it is not.

corethree 3y ago
No bait. Apologies if it sounded insulting. Put it this way, it's extremely challenging and not simple at all to walk and balance on a wire. Tight rope walking is not simple at all because very few people can do it. But tightrope walking is different from something like Quantum physics. I may not be able to tightrope walk but I can understand the concept in it's entirety. For Quantum Physics, many people will never truly understand it. What I'm saying is this, ML is tightrope walking. Challenging, not simple, but NOT quantum physics. It only seems like quantum physics.