Boring machine learning is where it's at

November 22, 2021•53 words

go grab a spreadsheet and figure out how to get the best result on a boring economics problem with a boring algorithm; Don't worry so much about making a painting or movie with GANs, we're already really good at doing that and enjoy doing it.

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