Research scientist @GoogleAI. Academic @InfAtEd. Fellow @turinginst. Machine learning, deep learning, programming languages, software engineering. ❤️s:🐱🐶☕️
Jul 13, 2018 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Interesting thread. It's good to see these ideas expressed in such a clear and provocative way, because a lot of people believe them, and they are wrong in an interesting way. THREAD 👇🏻 (post 1 of "until my beer gets cold")
First, what is by now a chestnut "deep learning is great engineering but no science." This is (a) wrong, and (b) contains a fundamental misunderstanding, common in computer science, about what engineering is.