Guy Jantic on Nostr: npub1zdp33…2vqv8 As someone wanting to leave academia and go to something (like ...

npub1zdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dq42vqv8 (npub1zdp…vqv8) As someone wanting to leave academia and go to something (like research? data science?), I've been hit with this for a few years. The people doing parametric (or even nonparametric) old school stats are a minority in industry. Machine learning ate the industry years ago, well before LLMs. Random forests, GMMs, etc. are everywhere. Industry doesn't care about discovering truth; it cares about a model that will increase its bottom line by 1.5%.