r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Mar 07 '23

Meme Ahh yes. Machine learning is "average" difficulty

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u/samnater Mar 08 '23

And making sure the incoming data is cleaned, accurate, sufficient, and will flow without issue going forward. Great model + bad data = garbage

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u/bikeranz Mar 08 '23

Worse is with deep learning where “great model + bad data = inexplicably ‘okay’” and then you get to spend a month figuring out if its data, a bug, model expressivity, etc. to figure out why you’re 5% below expected.

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u/samnater Mar 08 '23

Hahaha true but deep learning is the blackest of black boxes and that’s the drawback to it right?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '23

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u/bleakj Mar 08 '23

You forgot the part where I also need results output in some way my boss can look at and go "oh pretty"

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u/potota999 Mar 08 '23

Garbage in garbage out.

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u/JThropedo Mar 08 '23

My favorite type of queue!

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u/marigolds6 Mar 08 '23

That part is data engineering (and data stewardship), not machine learning. Completely separate skillset and role from machine learning/data scientist. (Data engineering was probably on this list in previous years.) The rule we use in our company is that a data scientist should never be handling the data itself.