On: Goodbye, data science

[csimon80]

It's so buzz word heavy. I had a manager that wanted me to solve a problem using the monte-carlo method when it fact the problem had a closed form solution...

[r-zip → csimon80]

Why do math on paper when you can write code and look cool (and not like a useless academic)?

[FridgeSeal → r-zip]

I’ll take this one step further:

Why bother to understand how either software development has solved a problem, or how maths+stats has solved a problem when you could just ignore operational practices and “train a neural network to do it”?

[CarbonCycles → csimon80]

Now that's both funny and sad. Mostly sad....