News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Netflix never used its $1M algorithm (2012) by htrp on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:21PM (#38943346)
I feel like kaggle is a copycat wasteland for most projects now. You don't quite get top talent, rather you get a bunch of people xgboosting their way up your leaderboard.
Re:Netflix never used its $1M algorithm (2012) by erhserhdfd on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:31PM (#38943482)
"...rather you get a bunch of people xgboosting their way up your leaderboard" -->

I don't see that as a universally bad thing. I feel this is actually very representative of the majority of ML projects that most organizations encounter. Most organizations don't have petabytes of data and a huge compute budget to train a DNN. They typically have megabytes to gigabytes of somewhat crappy data and need something that can be developed and deployed relatively quickly for low cost.