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Re:Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI? by Jasamba on Monday August 28, 2017 @10:24PM (#15121676)
That is making the assumption that the person using the tool is a surgeon (an expert in the field who could function independently if needed) which is not who the targeted demographic of such tools is. No-one who understands ML to some non-zero extent would use a plug-and-play ML tool, given that there is ML left to do otherwise. A better analogy would be a janitor activating the red button of the robot machine, which then does its complex surgery where if something goes wrong, the janitor would not be able to replace/understand the problem other than trying to restart it/kick it.
Re:Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI? by nerdponx on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @08:02PM (#15137137)
Perhaps, but the meta/hyper-optimization techniques used to implement TPOT, AutoML, etc. are perfectly valid replacements for grid search and stepwise feature selection.