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Why do most people think that machine learning is the answer to their poor business decisions. I have recently had a client who won't stop talking about how his business will grow to Google's scale if I get the model to 97% accuracy . Regardless to say his data is noisy and unstructured. I have tried to explain to him that data cleansing is more important and will take most of the time but he only seems to care about the accuracy and how he is losing investors because I haven't reached that accuracy. This is fucking putting alot of pressure on me and it's not becoming fun anymore. I can only hope he achieves his ambitions if I ever get that accuracy (Ps: From the research papers I have read on that problem, the highest accuracy a model has ever got to it 90%)

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    Pretty sure that guy does not have his statistics down. fudge the numbers, and he will be happy.
    Also, ML is usualy not the solution to a problem, but a whole set of new problems that drift in more problems with new data.
  • 4
    Client thinks that algorithms are not good enough but their data is pure as if it came straight from heaven
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    part about " getting to google scale " friend of mine worked for company developing some mobile game, and his boss was in same delusion " we'll be big as Google, nope even bigger' " ....... i can just laugh on it :D
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