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itsoktocry on July 3, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: On moving from statistics to machine learning, the...

>You get to focus on the important stuff, instead of juggling ten balls at the same time.

So on one hand, you can't build any models without the work of the engineers, but on the other the model building is "the important stuff"?

Maybe it's just me, but I enjoy working on all aspects of the data pipeline.

amznthrowaway5 on July 4, 2020 [–]

Model building is often the trivial part, and often you can't build models without a solid understanding of things like the data pipeline.

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