[gok]

> This makes programmers sad, because by nature we love to brute force trial-and error our code, and homey don't play that game with machine learning.

Huh? If anything I would say ML is way more trial-and-error focused than imperative programming.

[SoSoRoCoCo]

Well, if your only experience is reading python opencv stack overflow posts, then of course...

[gok]

I mean in the sense that using ML for a problem often requires just trying a dozen different modeling techniques, then a bunch of a hyper-parameter searching, then a bunch of stochastic tuning…

[SoSoRoCoCo]

Oh. I see what you mean. Yeah, I guess by definition backwards propagation is trial-end-error. Huh, I never thought of it that way. Thanks for clarifying, I thought you were being saucy: my apologies for being snarky.

[gok]

It's HN; we're all here for the snark!