Re:Google Tech Dev Guide
by C1sc0cat on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @07:01AM
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But the best solution is just buy a library - at my first job (Hydrodynamics research) we didn't write our own FFT - we just brought one from NAG.
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Google couldn't buy a page rank library unfortunately. Nor can they evolve search or develop tensorflow with people that just work off of libraries.
And what proportion of HN readers are in that situation ?
Not that where I worked wound not have built things from scratch - still whish I had had the budget to use ML for one project but with hard ware costs of £250,000 just for the hardware in early 80's it wasn't cost-effective.
And there in lies the problem. HN extrapolates its skill set to be the need of ALL companies. And companies should only test for that.
I do systems for a living. There is no way I would be successful if all I knew were frameworks.