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How is this Simon’s area of expertise? I know he’s a programming legend, but I’ve never heard anything to indicate he’s a machine learning expert. I’m not inte
by emp17344 9mo ago
How is this Simon’s area of expertise? I know he’s a programming legend, but I’ve never heard anything to indicate he’s a machine learning expert.
I’m not intending to be dismissive, just noticing a pattern and advocating a bit of skepticism.
- wanderingstan 9mo agoThis is more akin to a race car driver give a review of, for example, a new type of electric car. It doesn’t matter that the driver is not a domain expert in electric motors and regenerative braking; what matters is he knows how to operate these machines in their use case at the limits. Hearing a programming legend weigh in on the latest programming tool seems entirely completely reasonable.
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- simonw 9mo agoBeing an expert in machine learning turns out to not be particularly relevant to being an expert in the applications of LLMs to real-world problems. I'm certainly not an expert in the former but I do think I have credibility in the latter.