Just 20 minutes one way adds up to 20 working days per year. That's 4 weeks of unpaid labor!
People are unhappy about extra money spent on Air Conditioning or an extra office chair but the most are happy to carry the opportunity cost of commute. :(
I am constantly puzzled by people saying that AI is overhyped and fresh grads won't have enough jobs for them. Almost every real life industry: retail, logistics, construction, farming, heavy industries, mining, medicine have just recently started to try AI. The amount of manual and suboptimal tasks that have to be automated and optimized is enormous. I am pretty sure there is more the enough work for applied DSs with domain knowledge in mentioned industries.
Agreed, I feel we are just barely scratching the surface. I'm fairly involved in the AI/ML world (research at FAANG) and the amount of hype definitely scares me, but ML/AI isn't going anywhere soon imo.
I agree with this totally. The amount of benefit we've seen in the last 5 years due to ML model improvements is staggering. There is huge potential to apply even pre-trained models in tons of industries. BERT + fine tuning solves domain-specific NLP problems far better than the cutting edge research of a couple years ago.
That being said, the business / marketing use of terms like "AI" is way out of control.
The most recent example has been supply failure detection in sales timeseries data with intermittent demand. Ended up using approach described in The Longest Run of Heads by Mark F. Schilling, which is outstandingly well written stats paper and a pleasure to read.
Western philosophy starting from Ancient Greeks has offered a variety of coherent life philosophies that both help with untouched wounding and ego-striving. The books provide cheap and accessible salvation which is just not in demand by most people and it is quite sad.
Given that a handful of names occupy Gold places in kaggle competitions, I would not call it luck. Given how hard it is to stay at the top on private set, I would not call it luck.
The winning models are hardly ever used in production, but the set of skills needed to get a gold is.
Young have the freedom to risk, so they do. The most fail, but some survive. Older have less freedom, so fewer risk. Not as many fail, so some survive. We observe some young and some older founders who have survived. What does it tell us? Not much.
I'd like to add that the data comes from experiments, which are simplified versions of real life problems. Oftentimes, "irrational" behavior depends on the way simplification is made and have no chances to generalise outside the laboratory, because in real life signal is more complex and informative. Yet a paper will be published stating "people behave irrationally". (in the lab with given peculiar instructions)
Folks, thanks for bringing it up. I am running too. These 22 minutes every other day have helped me to stay cheerful for the last 3 years. Rarely, my knees give me a hard time, but aching knees are fine in comparison to being toxic to myself and to people I love due to overload. So if you feel like you've had it, just try to run; literally.
People are unhappy about extra money spent on Air Conditioning or an extra office chair but the most are happy to carry the opportunity cost of commute. :(