The curse of smart people
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The main reason why researchers & engineers fail to develop maintainable & robust ML systems is their attraction to complexity
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The Psychological Reasons for Software Project Failureshttps://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5061258/The-Psychological-Reasons-for-Software-Project-Fai …
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No shit, CS students get even less math then a civil engineer. just
#learntocode "..The common belief among society in general and among programmer society as well is that “programmers are smart”,...[SNIP] .based on a false assumption that programming a machine is difficult..."
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Occam's razor
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Some engineers very much embrace chaos engineering approach though, organisations often not have the appetite, to take down things in PROD
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Have you ever considered the real reason is because the industry tends to promote one way of doing things, and many engineers don't learn any other.
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My first industry job was in a Japanese high-tech company. There I learned their philosophy 'simpler is better'. That's why my models are simple. Not better, though.
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How do I prevent this? As a manager with few of such engineers who love complicating solutions unnecessarily, I'm constantly looking for ways to bring about a change at workplace wrt this !
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That’s definitely a factor among the better teams. More often it seems the system is just glued together by folks who have never built one before with the hopes it works at all.
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That said, I agree in general we over complicate things and pay for it
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