I think there’s a difference between mechanical sympathy and really knowing what’s going on mathematically.
IMO, parent is right. It’s going the way computing did. Ie most degree programmes basically teach you how to programme. Many degrees don’t even require maths anymore.
Hype drives demand drives hiring ,... and always at the top a bunch of guys that don’t know anything about ML at all :)
Yes, but couldn't the same be said about many aspects of software engineering. If you want to optimize a database query of some application code, yes you need to understand what's going on under the hood, but to produce something useful you only need a fraction of that knowledge.
Yes that quite right IMO. Software has been a craft for ages. And I don’t mean it disparagingly, but the number of devs that can think from first principles, know the difference between computing and programming or get “close to the metal”, is relatively small.
I think the same is true of marketing. The number of marketers that are also good researchers is tiny.
And so on.
The common denominator is short supply, high demand pressure, and in all I’m thankful for it because it keeps the wolf from the door for many of us.
But.. it leaves the deeper science/art (whatever yours be) untapped , and it adds so much noise to the market that gold becomes difficult to sell for peanuts.
IMO, parent is right. It’s going the way computing did. Ie most degree programmes basically teach you how to programme. Many degrees don’t even require maths anymore.
Hype drives demand drives hiring ,... and always at the top a bunch of guys that don’t know anything about ML at all :)