“Expert in machine learning”, “has read the literal first sentence of the Wikipedia entry for ‘machine learning’” – same thing. Tomayto, tomahto.
Everything else I’m talking about in detail is just gravy; literally just read the first sentence of the Wikipedia article to know that machine learning is a field of AI. That’s the part that got me to say “no one in this thread knows what they’re talking about”: it’s the literal first sentence in the most prominent reference work in the world that everyone reading this can access in two seconds.
You can say most people don’t know the atomic weight of oxygen is 16-ish. That’s fine. I didn’t either; I looked it up for this example. What you can’t do is say “the atomic weight of oxygen is 42”, then when someone contradicts you that it’s 16, refuse to concede that you’re wrong and then – when they clarify why the atomic weight is 16 – stand there arms crossed and with a smarmy grin say: “wow, expert blindness much? geez guys check out this bozo”
We get it; you read xkcd. The point of this story is that you need to know fuck-all about atomic physics to just go on Wikipedia before you confidently claim the atomic weight is 42. Or, when someone calls you out on it, go on Wikipedia to verify that it’s 16. And if you want to dig in your heels and keep saying it’s 42, then you get the technical explanation. Then you get the talk about why it has that weight, because you decided to confidently challenge it instead of just acknowledging this isn’t your area of expertise.
“Expert in machine learning”, “has read the literal first sentence of the Wikipedia entry for ‘machine learning’” – same thing. Tomayto, tomahto.
Everything else I’m talking about in detail is just gravy; literally just read the first sentence of the Wikipedia article to know that machine learning is a field of AI. That’s the part that got me to say “no one in this thread knows what they’re talking about”: it’s the literal first sentence in the most prominent reference work in the world that everyone reading this can access in two seconds.
You can say most people don’t know the atomic weight of oxygen is 16-ish. That’s fine. I didn’t either; I looked it up for this example. What you can’t do is say “the atomic weight of oxygen is 42”, then when someone contradicts you that it’s 16, refuse to concede that you’re wrong and then – when they clarify why the atomic weight is 16 – stand there arms crossed and with a smarmy grin say: “wow, expert blindness much? geez guys check out this bozo”
We get it; you read xkcd. The point of this story is that you need to know fuck-all about atomic physics to just go on Wikipedia before you confidently claim the atomic weight is 42. Or, when someone calls you out on it, go on Wikipedia to verify that it’s 16. And if you want to dig in your heels and keep saying it’s 42, then you get the technical explanation. Then you get the talk about why it has that weight, because you decided to confidently challenge it instead of just acknowledging this isn’t your area of expertise.
I’ll be adding this to the presentation.