[eanzenberg]

Why? Most of that cruft is abstracted away, computation only gets cheaper over time (a world class AI rig cost ~30k, a decent one for 2k) and most applications of ML run on commodity hardware.

[xamuel]

For one thing, it suggests that they are actually technicians, not the scientists they're selling themselves as.

That's fine if you want a technician (and if they're charging technician's rates).

[opencl]

I think when it comes to ML the CS experts with limited statistics knowledge are the technicians and the statistics experts with limited CS knowledge are the scientists, not the other way around.

[eanzenberg]

And then that technician rate is X times what a technician rate would be for pure software dev.. what is your point?