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CS Prof | AI by Hand ✍️ | @CUBoulder
Apr 30 4 tweets 1 min read
With the threat of layoffs everywhere, my students asked me: "How do we make ourselves invaluable on an AI/ML team?" 🤔 I told them 3 things: Hint: It's not coding. It's not knowing the latest API frameworks either. 👇 𝟭. 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵 ✍️
Not just being able to string together model architectures with libraries, but developing true math intuition. When the models break down, when the libraries fail us, it's this intuition that helps us debug at a fine-grained level. I've seen teams spend weeks stuck on problems that a little math insight could have solved in hours.