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Re:A.I. will have implications for education, welfare and ge... by bitL on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:01PM (#18295346)
No worries, even PhDs don't understand why things work, only how ;-)

You simply need to practice on challenging problems, sometimes ripping off code that is state-of-art, analyzing it, understanding why certain things are done the way they are done, and in a few months you could be able to do your own state-of-art custom models with your own loss functions with distributed training using your own callbacks and getting $500k salary in some valley company.

Re:A.I. will have implications for education, welfare and ge... by commandlinefan on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:00PM (#18296341)
> even PhDs don't understand why things work

When you finish your Bachelor's degree, you know everything.

When you finish your Master's degree, you realize you know nothing.

When you finish your PhD, you realize nobody else knows anything, either.

Re:A.I. will have implications for education, welfare and ge... by flowe_p on Friday October 26, 2018 @12:18AM (#18306760)
what IQ do you think is required for this? do you think a solid lead dev who knows linear algebra and calculus could do this in a year or so?