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by smallcharleston 7y ago
I feel somewhat similarly. If you want to learn ML from the “ground up” that means learning math (at least a few subjects) to the senior undergraduate level, some numerical methods, some probability and statistics, sprinklings of other stuf
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
If you make the terrible mistake of going to graduate school and then study in any serious depth something that ends up becoming “blog/HN popular”, you’ll have (in my experience) the experience of realizing how many extremely interesti
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
As long as I can eat, who cares? Someone being smarter than me is their problem.
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
That’s basically how they taught my computer architecture course, but they started from C (instead of Python) and worked back to assembly and then to transistors or whatever those gate things are (I studied enough to make an A and don’t car
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
I agree. If you’re one of 3 engineers holding it together, that’s the company’s problem (unless you won’t be able to find another job). If the other 2 engineers start working all the time to try and hold it together, that’s their problem (u
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
“ AI is linear algebra that costs x1000 because of the brand name.” This doesn’t even make sense because it can be said about anything involving numerical work on a computer and it’s still roughly true. Also because all of the libraries are
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by smallcharleston 7y ago
I feel like the competition angle is a scam. For all his faults, one of the things my father taught me (not intentionally, as me developing the habit enraged him) is that there is always a backdoor. He did alright in school, studied hard so