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The data never fits the graph. Real-world tables are messy and full of hidden junk, so you either spend weeks arguing over structure or give up the nice causal story.
DL stole the mind-share. A transformer is a one-liner with a mature tooling stack; hard to argue with that when deadlines loom.
That said, they’re not completely dead - reportedly Microsoft’s TrueSkill (Xbox ranking), a bunch of Google ops/diagnosis pipelines, some healthcare diagnosis tools by IBM Watson built on Infer.NET.
Anyone here actually shipped a PGM that beat a neural baseline? Would really love to appreciate your war stories.
Are you aware of any similar resources on DS or general software engineering topics?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)
Despite the fact that the film is officially based on Strugatsky 1972 novel Roadside Picnic, the sphiere idea from resemblance 'the Room'.
I totally agree that data management problems are not just ML related. But I personally think that there are additional challenges in the space that are not just version control for data.. all the area of data quality management and monitoring for example. I liked the analogy to devops, source version was super critical problem to solve in software development, but it didn't stop there, with things like CI/CD etc. I believe we'll see similar evolution in the data space..
>"With Manifold’s design, we turned the traditional ML model visualization challenge on its head. Instead of inspecting models, we inspect individual data points "
It really seems that they went on implanting the more sophisticated step (which seems very promising), while skipping the straight forward one.
What am I missing?