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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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