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by Kpourdeilami 2825 days ago
Unless their product is extremely manual and depends on hiring on a bunch of engineers to train models for each customer
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Firstly, you'd probably want 50% data people, 50% engineers to make that work acceptably. Secondly, that kind of stuff is totally viable to throw automated grid-search at, especially if you've just been acquired by a profitable company.

Finally, I reckon that the comment upstream about GDPR is probably correct. Suddenly facing way harsher terms for 30% of revenue (assuming standard breakdowns) is double-plus ungood, which may have sparked this.

To be fair, if I were them, I'd totally have taken the money and ran.