Website review: Worsethanfailure.com/Articles/No,_W...
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Zefyr rated 9 months ago- Conclusion: drop Neural Nets drop stats drop maths, pick up rhetoric it helps!
- eliasen rated 15 months ago
- This is spooky. First, it was spooky as hell because just before I clicked the Stumble button, I was wondering, "what's the name of that site that had horrible programming anecdotes?" And when I clicked, one second later, I was brought to that very site, "Worse Than Failure." Wow. Stumbleupon has gotten pretty bloody good if it can read minds! Second, I thought that this article reflected a couple of job offers I've gotten. About 14 years ago, I designed and built a neural network package. From this, I had two different companies offer me jobs developing neural networks for their companies. I spent almost the entire interview in both cases explaining why I thought neural networks were a really bad match for their projects and wouldn't give good results at all; they could do no better than a simple traditional statistical analysis, and probably do much worse. (One company wanted me to predict the stock market! Yikes!) Even after that, both companies offered me the job. I declined, of course, even though the money offered was quite good and the job was probably better than I the one I had (modulo inevitable failure.) Some people, in those days especially, thought neural networks were a magic bullet that could solve any kind of problem. So I believe this article entirely.
