Why is machine learning ‘hard’?

Re:Why is machine learning ‘hard’? by partykid92 on Saturday November 12, 2016 @05:03AM (#12937263)

Thats like saying bubblesort lies at the intersection of combinatorics, topology and complexity theory. True, but pretentious

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Re:Why is machine learning ‘hard’? by Al-Khwarizmi on Saturday November 12, 2016 @07:32AM (#12937577)

I don't think it was pretentious, and your analogy is quite off. You don't need to understand any of those fields to grok bubblesort (algorithmics is enough). You do need to know some statistics, calculus and algorithmics to understand stochastic gradient descent.

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Re:Why is machine learning ‘hard’? by partykid92 on Saturday November 12, 2016 @08:24PM (#12941278)

you don't need to understand statitstics. calculus (calculus is a high school subject and is hardly deep), and what is "algorithmics"? If you mean the study of any and all algorithms, then sure,

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Re:Why is machine learning ‘hard’? by sixo on Saturday November 12, 2016 @10:10AM (#12938159)

3 fields, but each only at an introductory level.

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