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What are ML jobs about? I have this vague notion that you spend a lot of time gathering/cleaning data and throwing things at the wall, but maybe that's not accu
by calebh 3y ago
What are ML jobs about? I have this vague notion that you spend a lot of time gathering/cleaning data and throwing things at the wall, but maybe that's not accurate.
I've always been stronger at discrete type math/programming, which is why I tend to shy away from statistics-based stuff like ML.
One thing to note is that LLMs are indeed feed forward, however the generation of the text (from my understanding) is recursive in that you feed each output token to another forward pass of the neural network.
- anon291 3y ago> I've always been stronger at discrete type math/programming, which is why I tend to shy away from statistics-based stuff like ML. I think there's a major misconception that ML in the form of deep learning is about statistics. There's no statistics in deep learning models. There are some statistical measurements made of final models, much in the same way a good computer science paper covering implementations of discrete data structures might make statistical statements showing the performance of the author's implementation, but like transformers and traditional neural nets and backprop have nothing to do with statistics.