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Re:Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without Jargon by mziel on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @03:00AM (#9332375)
Sometimes I get the idea that people in CS want to "get all this machine learning/data science stuff" without understanding the principles.

Sure, it's trivially easy to build a classifier in R/Scikit (or even code one up from scratch) so it may seem like it's no big deal. Similarily, it's trivially easy to hack up an inefficient SQL query, without knowledge of relational algebra or normal forms. But I would argue that some basic knowledge is essential in applying these things.

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Re:Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without Jargon by stoched on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @04:21AM (#9332587)
"Sometimes I get the idea that people in CS want to "get all this machine learning/data science stuff" without understanding the principles."

Thought I was the only one.

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Re:Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without Jargon by blumkvist on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @04:55AM (#9332680)
Not at all. People want easy things. Just look at all the companies that provide "Easy A/B testing" or "Easy lead scoring" via super-complicated-data-scienice-stuff-we-will-explain-in-1000-words-or-less-blogposts.

It doesn't matter that the results are absolute junk. Customers pay money so they can feel good. And it's easy.

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