I wrote the first edition of Th oughtful Machine Learning out of frustration over my coworkers’ lack of discipline. Back in 2009 I was working on lots of machine learning projects and found that as soon as we introduced support vector machines,...
Software engineering is the only engineering discipline where product testing is a
major technical and organizational concern, as well as an important cost factor.
Several factors contribute to this state of affairs:
• The first factor that makes...