<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ori_b</author><text>Because this is the language of the domain. Much like code is the language of programming. This isn&amp;#x27;t academic rigor or lingo. This is how things work.&lt;p&gt;To me, your comment reads similarly to &amp;quot;Much like most business people don&amp;#x27;t spend their time reading code to do the job, I question why such academic rigor is to be demanded by someone who is translating business requirements into database operations&amp;quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>brilliantcode</author><text>Sure it is. Much like most developers don&amp;#x27;t spend their time reading on computing science papers to do their job, I question why such academic rigour is to be demanded from somebody trying to capitalize on the arbitrage opportunity.&lt;p&gt;Math is good but my time won&amp;#x27;t be best used if I have to learn calculus all over again just to begin understanding the linguo. Rather have a generic model of what to use and when, hire those that have that capacity to dive deep when needed and implement the expected business outcome.</text></item><item><author>deepnotderp</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;So the question is, how does an average joe hacker like me exploit and leverage this wonderful thing called deep learning? I&amp;#x27;m not interested in reading PHD papers with advanced calculus.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;FFS, if you&amp;#x27;re not willing to read a paper with BASIC CALCULUS (it&amp;#x27;s HS&amp;#x2F;college, not advanced like fractional), then I&amp;#x27;m not sure machine learning is the right place for you.</text></item><item><author>brilliantcode</author><text>it won&amp;#x27;t be long before we hearing more headlines like:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;AI beats top 10 hedge fund managers&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;AI run hedge fund blows up due to black swan event&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;regardless it&amp;#x27;s an incredible feat. It really casts questions into what our edge as humans are which is slowly disappearing and we didn&amp;#x27;t even need to put a brain in a jar and hook it up to a computer....it&amp;#x27;s deep learning reinforced algorithms that is appearing to outlearn, outthink the best of humans.&lt;p&gt;I just can&amp;#x27;t emphasize what a monumental period in history we are at. Humans are producing specialized algorithms that learn and hold information about the deep web of relationships between myriads of parameters to produce superior performance than humans.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost like we&amp;#x27;ve uncovered ways to automate our intelligence very much like we&amp;#x27;ve been automating human and animal labor in the past couple centuries.&lt;p&gt;So the question is, how does an average joe hacker like me exploit and leverage this wonderful thing called deep learning? I&amp;#x27;m not interested in reading PHD papers with advanced calculus.&lt;p&gt;I want to have a map of what AI, ML, DL, NN methodologies to use and when and who to hire based on that. This is no time to be a luddite and don&amp;#x27;t count on basic income from appeasing the masses anytime soon. Much like people took the most hit in the early rise of industrial revolution, our generation and immediate generation will be hit the hardest.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI Beats Four Top Poker Players</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38812530</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>davidivadavid</author><text>How do you suggest you take advantage of an arbitrage opportunity if you have 0 informational insight?</text><parent_chain><item><author>brilliantcode</author><text>Sure it is. Much like most developers don&amp;#x27;t spend their time reading on computing science papers to do their job, I question why such academic rigour is to be demanded from somebody trying to capitalize on the arbitrage opportunity.&lt;p&gt;Math is good but my time won&amp;#x27;t be best used if I have to learn calculus all over again just to begin understanding the linguo. Rather have a generic model of what to use and when, hire those that have that capacity to dive deep when needed and implement the expected business outcome.</text></item><item><author>deepnotderp</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;So the question is, how does an average joe hacker like me exploit and leverage this wonderful thing called deep learning? I&amp;#x27;m not interested in reading PHD papers with advanced calculus.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;FFS, if you&amp;#x27;re not willing to read a paper with BASIC CALCULUS (it&amp;#x27;s HS&amp;#x2F;college, not advanced like fractional), then I&amp;#x27;m not sure machine learning is the right place for you.</text></item><item><author>brilliantcode</author><text>it won&amp;#x27;t be long before we hearing more headlines like:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;AI beats top 10 hedge fund managers&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;AI run hedge fund blows up due to black swan event&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;regardless it&amp;#x27;s an incredible feat. It really casts questions into what our edge as humans are which is slowly disappearing and we didn&amp;#x27;t even need to put a brain in a jar and hook it up to a computer....it&amp;#x27;s deep learning reinforced algorithms that is appearing to outlearn, outthink the best of humans.&lt;p&gt;I just can&amp;#x27;t emphasize what a monumental period in history we are at. Humans are producing specialized algorithms that learn and hold information about the deep web of relationships between myriads of parameters to produce superior performance than humans.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost like we&amp;#x27;ve uncovered ways to automate our intelligence very much like we&amp;#x27;ve been automating human and animal labor in the past couple centuries.&lt;p&gt;So the question is, how does an average joe hacker like me exploit and leverage this wonderful thing called deep learning? I&amp;#x27;m not interested in reading PHD papers with advanced calculus.&lt;p&gt;I want to have a map of what AI, ML, DL, NN methodologies to use and when and who to hire based on that. This is no time to be a luddite and don&amp;#x27;t count on basic income from appeasing the masses anytime soon. Much like people took the most hit in the early rise of industrial revolution, our generation and immediate generation will be hit the hardest.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI Beats Four Top Poker Players</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38812530</url></story>