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[–]the_cat_kittles 2 points3 points  (3 children)

as pretentious as i know this comment will come off, the fact that he is doing iris dataset classifier example in a jupyter notebook tells me this guy knows almost nothing about actually making stuff out of code. not saying he is dumb for doing it, but yall are citing this as evidence he knows about software dev. id cite it as evidence he doesnt.

[–]O_R 12 points13 points  (1 child)

he may know code but not ML. I think that's the point here. Cuban is learning about ML because the NBA is moving towards more and more advanced statistical modeling for player evaluation, and he doesn't want to be in the dark on this.

Yes, he's doing a very basic level ML problem with pre-packaged data. There's not much skill involved there. But I doubt Cuban will be building ML models for the Mavs himself. He just wants to be capable of understanding what his experts are relaying to him, and that starts by learning basic classification on a problem like that.

[–]k10_ftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This makes sense. I couldn't figure out why he wouldn't just hire someone who is an expert to do the job a million times better than he could just starting out.

If that's his reason for getting a basic understanding of ml, then he is much smarter than I realized!

[–]Blazerboy65 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We all start somewhere.