Hamel Husain Defends Data Science for AI Evaluation
Machine learning engineer counters claims of data science decline in AI context.
Hamel Husain, a research engineer and former GitHub staff ML engineer, posted that data science supplies tools and judgment for evaluating AI products with stochastic text outputs. He urged designing experiments and testing hypotheses to handle noisy signals, calling contrary views rage bait. Husain linked the remarks to his blog post titled The Revenge of the Data Scientist, which asks whether data science is in decline. The generated headline in the packet reads Data Science Skills Essential For Evalu.
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Hamel Husain@HamelHusainDon't fall for this rage bait 😅 DS gives you the tools and judgement to make sense of noisy signals and stochastic outputs For AI -> lets you measure if an AI product is working even though the outputs are text. You have to design experiments and test hypothesis that…
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HY Hector Yee@eigenhectorYeah I mean I really love data exploration with agents! You can test so many hypotheses with them
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