Confession: What makes me good at machine learning research makes my life miserable. And that is: I habitually stick with a problem until it's solved. The problem is that the problem can never truly be solved in machine learning. 1/
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I've come to learn that some problems have no absolute solutions, just compromises. That made my life easier in many ways.
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Yeah taking that perspective has helped get through jams at key times. Every time so far it has been a forced decision because of an outside constraint (time, namely). That's really good engineering generally (tradeoffs) but somehow really hard to apply here.
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I had a really hard time collaborating/teaching engineers for this reason
In research, knowledge is the goal so finding a new problem is exciting. But to many of my engineering friends, the point of a problem is to be solved.
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Some "problems" have a beauty to it and don't always need to be "solved", just acknowledged and when possible, understood!
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The problem we are trying to solve helps us to evolve and learn new perspectives. Sometimes we don't need to solve the problem, only change the point of view.
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Hi Jason, do you know some criterias or rule of thumb to judge whether a ML problem is solvable or not?
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Well by solvable I mean reaching a perfect solution where there's no doubt left- it's doing everything right. So I'm really alluding to the problems this presents to a perfectionist. I really don't think colorization can be truly solvable in that sense.
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Secretly I think we all want to be bike mechanics. Although, I am grateful you've chosen to postpone that!
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