“Why is redistributing power between fallible humans ungood? I mean, surely some humans are more fallible than others, some have more information than others, some have incentives to be fallible in particularly harmful ways, etc.”
This is what Stalin said as well.
It depends on the competitions. All kaggle image-related competitions I have seen have been obliterated by deep neural networks.
I am a researcher, albeit a freshman one, and I completely disagree. Knowing about linear and logistic regressions is interesting because neural networks evolved from there, but it’s something you can watch a couple of videos on, maybe another one about maximum likelihood and you are done. Not sure why SVMs are that important.
I graduated in applied math. Some people mock with me, but I keep prominently in my bookshelf both The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Calculus and Statistics. That Calculus book was the one that made me understand math and made me passionate about it.
“may return to it if some people with app-building experience and an interest in this raise their hands”
I would be interested. :)
Here is a couple of Android games I did: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Ricardo+Magalh%C3%A3es+Cruz
It’s something simple done over a weekend for fun. I am a machine learning researcher.
I would be interested—but I would like to know more about the project and the people involved...
Cheers :)