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The biggest problem is that even OP is unaware of what is really being skipped: math, stats, optimization & control. And like at a grad level.

But hey, import AI from HuggingFace, and let’s go!

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I’m very happy to see that the industry has moved away from the blockchain hype. AI/ML hype at least useful even if it is a buzzword for most places

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So true.

With LLMs, I can think of a few realistic and valuable applications even if they don’t successfully deliver on the hype and don’t actually shake the world upside down. With blockchain, I just could never see anything in it. Anyone trying to sell me on its promises would use the exact words people use to sell a scam.

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Blockchain is a great solution to a almost nonexistent problem. If you need a small, public, slow, append only, hard to tamper with database, then it is perfect. 99.9% of the time you want a database that is read-write, fast and private.

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While applying it where most shitcoins have applied Blockchain, I agree it’s all hype. But Blockchain doesn’t solve a non-existent problem.

Trusting humans is an inherent security flaw. Blockchain solves that problem. You don’t have to trust banks to not shortsell the housing market with your own money (causing a recession for the entire world) if you could cut humans out of the equation.

Forget money. Say the data that you want to be able to transact and operate on is health data instead of financial information. You could create a decentralized identity system based on people’s biometric information. From there, you could automate and decentralize governance in general.

Suggesting Blockchain solves a non-existent problem is like suggesting Lemmy solves a non-existent problem

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The worst part of ML is Python package management

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Yeah, I feel like Python is partly responsible for most of this meme. It’s easy for very simple scripts and it has lots of ML libraries. But all the stuff in between is made more difficult by the whole ecosystem being focused on scripting…

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Where’s discrete mathematics?

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Math? I write code, that’s words bro. Why would I ever need math?

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This is sadly how a lot of Computer Science students think nowadays.

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Cries in Maths and Statistics

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