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A company called Bonsai joins a movement to democratize machine learning

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64 pointsallenleee12 comments

Oh god, it's happening to machine learning too. The call for "rockstars" and "ninjas". Web development was already eaten by this garbage, can we just not this time?

The barrier to entry is still fairly high. ML still lacks a "PHP". But not for a long time. Hardware and software will eventually catch up and offer easy ti use components (something im researching).

> If you are a strong-armed NFL quarterback who reads defenses like genre fiction, a movie star whose name alone can open a film in China, or a stock picker who beats Buffet every time, congratulations: you are almost as valuable as a data scientist or machine learning engineer with a PhD from Stanford, MIT, or Carnegie Mellon.

who reads this garbage?

It's more like Rock, Paper, Scissors, Data Scientist, except:

NFL quarterback crushes puny data scientist

Movie star steals data scientist's girlfriend

Stock picker acqui-hires data scientist's company on the downturn for pennies on the dollar

Switch Democratize with Capitalize and you get the BS free version as a side effect.

Extremely trivial pet peeve, but I hate the word "democratize". In what way does this introduce a democratic voting system to AI? Why do they use this word? Because it summons vague positive connotations people have with "democracy"?

"Democratize" word meanings from the Oxford dictionary:

1) introduce a democratic system or democratic principles to: public institutions need to be democratized.

2) make (something) accessible to everyone: mass production has not democratized fashion.

The second one seems to be exactly what they say about their system.

Yes I know they aren't the first person to use the word that way, it still bothers me. I didn't know this abuse had become widespread enough to warrant an addition to the dictionary.

I think you are mistaken as to the recency of this definiton.

According to wikitionary, the definition : "Exhibiting social equality, egalitarian" for the word "democratic" dates back to 1915.

I checked wiktionary before posting and did not see that. Where do you see that? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/democratize

EDIT: Ah, ok, it's under "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/democratic". But I'm still not seeing 1915 there.

EDIT2: Ok it was hidden under an expandable.

It bothers me as well...

Too much bullshit

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