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Re:TensorFlow 2.0 Deep Learning Video Tutorial by mlevental on Saturday March 30, 2019 @12:40AM (#19527805)
not knowing the math behind ML is like not knowing a language and using google translate. most of the time you'll be fine but you won't be able to tell when something goes wrong and you won't be able to figure out why, and then you'll get things like

http://www.itltranslations.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/5_...

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Re:TensorFlow 2.0 Deep Learning Video Tutorial by ganeshkrishnan on Saturday March 30, 2019 @10:55AM (#19529706)
I don't think it's the right comparison. We use plenty of ml models in our startup like lsh and kmeans and I am hardly aware of how the math behind it runs.

If anything, these ml programs are supposed to abstract the maths behind it.

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