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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just chuck more data at it and hope for the best! It's a pretty fun strategy even if it fails a lot

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm convinced they're just into machine learning because of the funny mistakes they make

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

That's honestly one of the best parts about it. Reading error messages and thinking logically is boring compared to trying to guess how this stupid LLM got the idea to spit out what it did.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ML honestly sounds like a maddeningly dull profession to me because of this. It's a cool technology but jiggling hyperparameters and then waiting would grate on me.