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Specialization sure, but science is universal. Unless agriculture is built on trade secrets or art, you can contribute. This is one of my criticisms of Medica

Specialization sure, but science is universal. Unless agriculture is built on trade secrets or art, you can contribute. This is one of my criticisms of Medical. It's not a science or the barrier to entry would be significantly lower, and as a result cost would be lower. Degrees are good, but not necessary if you can do math and get experience.

neffy 6y ago
The difficulty with medicine lies in attempting to control the death count involved in gaining the experience. Some supervision required.
Skunkleton 6y ago
There are lots of not-fully-understood processes in the world that only work because we lucked into some way of doing them. If you come at these problems with a scientific mindset but with no real experience, you are going to have a bad time.
nradov 6y ago
There is a lot more to medicine than just math and science. That is not a sound basis for criticizing the field. You'll have to do better than that.
- logicNSci 6y ago
  >There is a lot more to medicine than just math and science This is the problem.
  - nradov 6y ago
    That is not a problem. It's simply a fact that you'll have to accept.
mespe 6y ago
So, in my grad program in ag, we had a Bay-area ML startup come in to give a seminar on how they were revolutionizing agriculture. The presented their findings on how to increase yields (which they claimed could only be understood from their algorithm). The problem they were diving into was well understood, and has been researched to death for the last 100+ years. And they had the relationship backwards, not understanding their "input" to increase yields was actually a response to low yields. They were the opposite of helpful, but rather a waste of our time. As with anything, it helps to know the current state of knowledge before you jump into contribute. An understanding of math doesn't get you there.
- logicNSci 6y ago
  ML is not science, it's barely math.

neffy 6y ago

The difficulty with medicine lies in attempting to control the death count involved in gaining the experience. Some supervision required.

Skunkleton 6y ago

There are lots of not-fully-understood processes in the world that only work because we lucked into some way of doing them. If you come at these problems with a scientific mindset but with no real experience, you are going to have a bad time.

nradov 6y ago

There is a lot more to medicine than just math and science. That is not a sound basis for criticizing the field. You'll have to do better than that.

logicNSci 6y ago
>There is a lot more to medicine than just math and science This is the problem.
- nradov 6y ago
  That is not a problem. It's simply a fact that you'll have to accept.

mespe 6y ago

So, in my grad program in ag, we had a Bay-area ML startup come in to give a seminar on how they were revolutionizing agriculture. The presented their findings on how to increase yields (which they claimed could only be understood from their algorithm). The problem they were diving into was well understood, and has been researched to death for the last 100+ years. And they had the relationship backwards, not understanding their "input" to increase yields was actually a response to low yields. They were the opposite of helpful, but rather a waste of our time. As with anything, it helps to know the current state of knowledge before you jump into contribute. An understanding of math doesn't get you there.

logicNSci 6y ago
ML is not science, it's barely math.