Comment by bazmattaz | Hacker News Reader

Comment by bazmattaz | Hacker News Reader

> I honestly do not care about the Math, statistics or theory behind them. I just want to know enough to be able to train a model, use a model and productionize it.

I have to say this comes across a little insulting to machine learning engineers. You’re asking for a quick snappy course that will teach what MLEs take years to learn and master. Sigh.

Nevertheless, The Andrew Ng course ML course on Coursera is a favourite among minds curious about ML.

Productionising a model is a whole different ball game and there is likely a wide range of content on the matter - it depends what you are trying to achieve, why does your live environment look like? How many users do you have? What SLOs and such if any do you have to meet?

> I have to say this comes across a little insulting to machine learning engineers.

How so? I have a lot of respect for ML engineers and I know what they do is no easy feat. However, I do not intend to get into ML, I see it as a tool to help me achieve an objective. My goal is to utilise said tool to achieve an objective, I have no intention of becoming an expert in this area. It's just like CSS when you want to use it, do you have to care about how the browser rendering works? No you don't, you simply use CSS.

> I honestly do not care about the Math, statistics or theory behind them. I just want to know enough to be able to train a model, use a model and productionize it.

How can anyone do that without some understanding of the maths behind it? Just downloading some jupiter notebooks and running them on colab is considered good enough? You and other 100k people. I don't think so.

!? How is that insulting to ML engineers?! When I want to just drive a formula one car do I need to understand the inner workings of a car engine? No.

How many C developers understand what a compiler does?! They just want the program to do what they want they don’t need to know how a code is the compiled.

I think your comment is a bit on a social warrior side.

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