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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by eastWestMath on Thursday June 11, 2015 @08:34AM (#9699257)
>Writing a package manager (been done before, a lot of times) is far different from writing machine learning algorithms (new field, blazing the trail for the industry). One requires an engineer, one requires a scientist.

I mean, a package manager is probably far more rooted in computer science than machine learning (which is basically just applied statistics: software engineering edition).

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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by tmu on Thursday June 11, 2015 @10:11AM (#9699787)
as someone who has worked on machine learning systems, this made me laugh out loud. not the fake thing you do when you mildly chuckle but don't actually make a sound. the thing where your coworkers look up and are annoyed. thanks!
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