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Friday Fun Thread for May 24, 2024

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Turns out that general information standards a kind of timeless.

There are some elite level ML engineers I've worked with who all have .... Library Sciences degrees.

Wait what how? Can someone explain ?

There's a good chunk of library science that has to do with figuring out precise meanings, and precise classifications of "things" based on those meanings. Getting that nailed down helps the data crunching process.

I suppose it’s not hugely uncommon because many people get into ML (NLP specifically) through linguistics/English related fields which I’d guess are pretty close to library science.

Llms killed NLP, so this is going to be a thing of the past soon.

LLMs will kill the vast majority of programming jobs and have made the grand machines imagined by NLP academics increasingly ridiculous, sure. But for now, when pay in the field is still high, they still do fine.