A company called Bonsai joins a movement to democratize machine learning
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Re: A company called Bonsai joins a movement to democratize machine learning
#2> 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?
Re: A company called Bonsai joins a movement to democratize machine learning
#3Oh 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?
Re: A company called Bonsai joins a movement to democratize machine learning
#4You don't democratize intelligence+hard work or invention. These are rare commodities for a reason. It would be like democratizing money.
Re: A company called Bonsai joins a movement to democratize machine learning
#5Oh 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).
Re: A company called Bonsai joins a movement to democratize machine learning
#6Extremely 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"?
Re: A company called Bonsai joins a movement to democratize machine learning
#7Extremely 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.
Re: A company called Bonsai joins a movement to democratize machine learning
#8> 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
Re: A company called Bonsai joins a movement to democratize machine learning
#9Switch Democratize with Capitalize and you get the BS free version as a side effect.
Re: A company called Bonsai joins a movement to democratize machine learning
#10Extremely 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.