Re:Learning Machine Learning: A beginner's journey
by tuxguy on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:49AM
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> Well, I think a lot of competitive advantage of Google/Facebook in ML is because they have staffed their engineering with people who have studied these things for years (by PhD). Compare that to flipkart's recommendations.
Not entirely true. Google & FB have orders of magnitude more data than flipkart.
You can have the smartest ML people on the planet churning out the most clever, advanced ML algos & models, but without enough data, its not going to be useful & effective.
I recently attended slashn[0], flipkart's annual technical conference, and spoke to a bunch of their ML folks. They have masters & phd degrees in ML from IITs, IISc and are as smart as they come.
Sure, flipkart doesnt have marquee names of the likes of yann lecun, andrew ng, but i wouldnt doubt the ML talent Flipkart has
Not entirely true. Google & FB have orders of magnitude more data than flipkart. You can have the smartest ML people on the planet churning out the most clever, advanced ML algos & models, but without enough data, its not going to be useful & effective.
I recently attended slashn[0], flipkart's annual technical conference, and spoke to a bunch of their ML folks. They have masters & phd degrees in ML from IITs, IISc and are as smart as they come.
Sure, flipkart doesnt have marquee names of the likes of yann lecun, andrew ng, but i wouldnt doubt the ML talent Flipkart has
0. https://slashn.flipkart.net/ ps : I dont work for flipkart, but have friends who work in ML teams