Most of the higher rated accounts have their cred built up from asking good questions rather than good answers.

Care to elaborate? That's the best hiring process I've ever seen.

It's a troll account with most posts being removed, just ignore it

How dare you

Being 15yo.

In the source code it says "I have discovered truly marvelous weights for this, which this header file is too small to contain"

You're overestimating the competency, drive, and intelligence of an average developer.

Fortunate are you to have worked with people to give you such a point of view.

Yeah, but what hiring process intends to hire average devs? Yes, most probably -end up with- average devs...but most also ask and test for X years in a language, not people who seek to learn things and are curious and want to take responsibility and own things.

I remember this as a Firefox plugin back in the early 2000's. Why is this news?

Because Firefox != Vivaldi

It's not penalty or step size. It's loss as in amount of information lossd (not encoded in your network) compared to one perfectly encoding ground truth. Learning rate, as in what is the maximum amount of delta you are allowed to change your inputs to minimise your information loss analogous to how quickly you can possibly learn in one experiment.

Fair. I’ll keep that in mind. On the other hand, it went way over my head, and I’m not afraid to admit it.

One of the nice things about ML (and math, for that matter) is that there are multiple mathematically equivalent ways of looking at a thing.

It goes uphill and downhill.

Please don't go into hourly-billed consulting if your default assumption is to just lie about your hours.

I'm in two minds about this (deeper integration with a particular vendor - i.e. "serverless")

Reduced time to market is incredibly valuable. Current client base is well in its millions. Ability to test to few and roll out to many instantly is invaluable. You no longer have to hire competent software developers who understand all patterns and practices to make scalable code and infrastructure. Just need them to work on a particular unit or function.

The thing which scares me is, some of these companies are decades of years old, hundreds. How long has AWS/GCP/Azure abstractions been around for? How quick are we to graveyard some of these platforms. Quite. A lot quicker than you can lift, shift and rewrite your solution to elsewhere.