Uber released Ludwig, a deep learning toolbox where hardly any coding skill

dannykwells · on Feb 13, 2019

I mentor a lot of young data scientists, and the advice I give them, over and over, is, "your ability to code as a data scientist is not what makes you employable." I use projects like this to make the point.

udayrddy · on Feb 13, 2019

Not taking away the great help to the open source community. Apart from high tech and advanced AI, did uber team missed the basics ? I mean, half of the 1.3MB webpage load is being consumed by 3 images. That "screens-2800.png" which consumes 586KB, and it conveys nothing.

dcahill-ieee · on Feb 13, 2019

Is anyone else a little bothered that Uber uses machine learning for “identification of points of interest during conversations between driver-partners and riders”

nthnclrk · on Feb 13, 2019

Title gore, but super interesting project.

bassman9000 · on Feb 13, 2019

> Doesn't require coding

> First step is to run pip

How many actual non-coders are going to go beyond step 1?

WalterGR · on Feb 13, 2019

How many actual non-coders are going to go beyond step 1?

Hard to say. Are we defining “non-coder” as a person who can neither use a command prompt nor code?

bassman9000 · on Feb 13, 2019

Your project managers, your functional QAs. Your manager's manager.

Outside SV, those people have never, and will never open a terminal.

WalterGR · on Feb 13, 2019

Horse shit.

Plenty of my relatives don’t have hot SV titles, and yet have successfully navigated the console / prompts / command line.

So in general: Citation Needed.

bassman9000 · on Feb 14, 2019

Somehow your anecdote seems to be better than mine. I've only worked in two other countries, aside from the US, and 4 distinct industries, and, again, except in SV, no PM or functional QA wanted to even get close to a terminal. Closest thing would be Excel, and always going through the formula UI.