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Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by latenightcoding on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:32PM (#36916230)
ML people nowadays barely know basic stats.
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Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by Given_47 on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:03PM (#36916428)
Disappointed black guy meme upon realizing a lot of “data science” is just calling some scikit learn module lol
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Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by sloozbug on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:15AM (#36917436)
lmao please link disappointed black guy meme appropriate for the times haha
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Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by Given_47 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:41PM (#36934527)
My bad: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/disappointed-black-guy
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Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by esafak on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:26AM (#36916913)
ML is going mainstream. Most programmers don't know algorithms and data structures, I bet, if you consider all programmers around the world.
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Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by uoaei on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:29AM (#36917495)
Normalcy is not a substitute for correctness.
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Re:Pyro: The Universal, Probablistic Programming Language by ur-whale on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:38AM (#36920749)
> ML people nowadays barely know basic stats.

The same can unfortunately be said of many "statisticians", who use statistics as a big recipe book without understanding the first thing about the mathematical underpinnings of the topic.

Don't believe me?

Go ask the first statistician you run into to give you a half decent of how the Chi-squared distribution and the Chi-squared test works, see what happens.

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