Comment by iancmceachern

7 months ago

I took a continuing education class from Stanford on ML recently and this was my main takeaway. Even the experts are just kinda poking it with a stick and seeing what happens.

That's just how science happens sometimes and how new discoveries are made. Heck even I have to do that sometimes with the codebase of large legacy applications. It's not en unreasonable tactic sometime.

  • Incompetent people waiting for “science to happen” while the merchant class lies to the peasants about what science should be for them to make money. Explains what is going on.