Looking for car keys under the streetlight
Windows On Theory 2018-03-12
Summary:
In NIPS 2017, Ali Rahimi and Ben Recht won the test of time award for their paper “Random Features for Large-scale Kernel Machines”. Ali delivered the following acceptance speech (see also addendum) in which he said that Machine Learning has become “alchemy” in the sense that it involves more and more “tricks” or “hacks” that work […]