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Re:Goodbye, Data Science by csimon80 on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @10:29AM (#33788741)
It's so buzz word heavy. I had a manager that wanted me to solve a problem using the monte-carlo method when it fact the problem had a closed form solution...
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Re:Goodbye, Data Science by r-zip on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:57PM (#33790858)
Why do math on paper when you can write code and look cool (and not like a useless academic)?
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Re:Goodbye, Data Science by FridgeSeal on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:01PM (#33794612)
I’ll take this one step further:

Why bother to understand how either software development has solved a problem, or how maths+stats has solved a problem when you could just ignore operational practices and “train a neural network to do it”?

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Re:Goodbye, Data Science by CarbonCycles on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @02:39PM (#33792200)
Now that's both funny and sad. Mostly sad....
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