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		6gvONxR4sf7o on Nov 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Am I too late for the “Data Science” wave? If I have to interview another whose only ML tools are GLMs, random forests and boosted trees (only ever with one hot encoding, of course) I’m going to do the same.

CinchWrench on Nov 19, 2020 [–]

Those and SVR's get me through 99% of the algorithmic part of my job, though!

The rest is some unsupervised stuff like k-means and PCA.

What would you like to see instead? (INB4 CNNs/RNNs other deep learning topics)

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