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idiotsecanttoday at 1:09 PM2 repliesview on HN

Some career do-nothing-but-make-noise in my organization hired a firm to 'Do AI' on some shitty data and the outcome was basically linear regression. It turns out that you can impressive executives with linear regression if you deliver it enthusiastically enough.


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tasukitoday at 1:56 PM

Tbh, often enough, linear regression is exactly what is needed.

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ozimtoday at 5:47 PM

Not everyone knows everything so knowledge is the new oil.

I do know about linear regression even had quite some of it at university.

But I still wouldn’t be able to just implement it on some data without good couple days to weeks of figuring things out and which tools to use so I don’t implement it from scratch.