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thinkr42

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thinkr42··on Being a Data Scientist: My Experience and Toolset
More like 'analyst' in how easily it is thrown around. Calling a built in function in python or R is just about equivalent to calling one in Excel. Sure, you can claim that folks need to know more about what is going on, but honestly, how many have actually gone through the work of deriving the functions they're calling to begin with?
thinkr42··on How Quid uses deep learning with small data
This post is a joke. Seriously, it amazes me that the entire industry seems fixated on a handful of techniques, just like they were with random forests 10 years ago, just like they were on SVMs ten years before that, just like they were base neural networks before that. There's a simpler way, nature almost requires it.
thinkr42··on Destruction of large numbers of jobs by robots unlikely, says new OECD Study
Find it entertaining that a GLM is the best method to detect whether a job or job class is at risk.
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