Move Slow and Make Things

Post by bovermyer » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 12:38 PM UTC

nicbou wrote: post #25

solarmist wrote: post #3

I’m sad this is an April fools joke because a lot of the sentiment rings true and I love the slogan “move slow and make things.” Artisans make beautiful things and software artisans make beautiful software, but it’s hard to do it and still be a viable business. And artisans moving slowly isn’t arbitrary. They move slow on the things that matter. The things that shine when attention was paid to the details.

One of my favourite articles on the internet is "an app can be a home-cooked meal". It's something you can make for your own enjoyment, with no plans for scaling on monetisation. I have started making this sort of software, and I thoroughly enjoy it. I target the platform I use, I solve the problems I have, and my only metric is pleasure. I wish we all had more of such projects.

Post by sumtechguy » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 12:52 PM UTC

bachmeier wrote: post #38

fxtentacle wrote: post #21

I know this is supposed to be a joke, but I feel like it's too close to reality to be funny. I recently ordered a custom tailored set of shirt, trousers, and belt. Their site was bragging about their great AI technology, but sadly I didn't notice that red flag early enough. The results were nothing short of disastrous. I sent in my measurements and they sent me a trouser with wrong measurements and a postcard that sa…

> they adjusted my measurements with AI for a better fit I'm trying to think of a way this makes sense. Do they have access to some big database about you that they can use to predict how you'll screw up your measurements?

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 1:07 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #28

bambax wrote: post #24

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> I sent in my measurements and they sent me a trouser with wrong measurements and a postcard that said that they adjusted my measurements with AI for a better fit That is nothing short of hilarious. The machine knows best! Who are you, human, to pretend you are able to measure yourself?! > AI for memorizing generic trends It's possible "AI" may be just a pretext to sell mass-made junk and pretend it is adjusted to e…

> It's possible "AI" may be just a pretext to sell mass-made junk and pretend it is adjusted to each individual. It's also an internal distraction. They'd achieve something much closer to what they promise if they just threw some old-school regression analysis at the problem. But that's not cool these days, plus it's hard to relabel as AI even for the marketroids these days, and would involve actual work :). This app…

Post by agnosticmantis » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 1:20 PM UTC

tomxor wrote: post #49

fxtentacle wrote: post #21

I know this is supposed to be a joke, but I feel like it's too close to reality to be funny. I recently ordered a custom tailored set of shirt, trousers, and belt. Their site was bragging about their great AI technology, but sadly I didn't notice that red flag early enough. The results were nothing short of disastrous. I sent in my measurements and they sent me a trouser with wrong measurements and a postcard that sa…

> they sent me a trouser with wrong measurements and a postcard that said that they adjusted my measurements with AI This brings a whole new meaning to "over fitting"

Post by disgruntledphd2 » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 1:29 PM UTC

marcinzm wrote: post #55

disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #17

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It's called statistics, to be fair. In general, if your DS's can't explain the model then something has gone horribly wrong.

>In general, if your DS's can't explain the model then something has gone horribly wrong. With modern ML models data scientists can generally explain why the model should work but not exactly how it gives any specific prediction. Explaining how a model with a trillion parameters comes up with an answer is not a trivial task.