Most of the tasks solved with ML are not a product of thoughtful engineering. One will very often read something like “mostly things have been discovered by trial and error, adding ideas and tricks that have progressively built a significant lore about how to work with neural nets”.
Thus Andrew Mende, Senior Product Manager ML, Booking.com , is sure that it is very important to keep up with the industry and see which methods worked for someone. There is a high chance that the same methods will work for your task.
About the speaker: 6+ years of experience in Product Management Machine Learning.
April 2023