[sevagh]

>In my experience, the only people who think architecture/model choice makes a huge difference are n00bs and academics.

There are countless competitions, etc. on Kaggle, AICrowd, or other platforms with an enforced standardized data set. Every entrant uses the same data set and there's a huge difference between the best and worst submissions.

[infecto]

> ...on Kagi,....

Did you mean https://www.kaggle.com/?

[sevagh]

Yes, thanks.

[disgruntledphd2]

Agreed but if you look at winning submissions which i did stop doing, a lot of them do very good feature engineering which is not a model related thing.