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Re:Fitting to Noise or Nothing at All: Machine Learning in M... by tensor on Sunday August 06, 2017 @10:44PM (#14944955)
This sort of comment does very little to advance the conversation. I made several attempts to write a response that talks about heuristics, algorithms, what industry does and what academia does, but in the end I found your portrayal of academia and industry to be so hyperbolic and unrealistically one sided that I felt it not even worth getting into the discussion.

Let's try to have respect for each other on both sides of the "academia/industry" fence and not resort to unrealistic black and white views of the world.

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Re:Fitting to Noise or Nothing at All: Machine Learning in M... by wslh on Sunday August 06, 2017 @11:03PM (#14945005)
If you look at an article talking about finances and machine learning, the success depends if you earn real money or not. It is cynical but it is the way algorithms are valued in that space. Real money returns are the real test.
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