They don't.
A few other things they seem completely unaware of:
- other ways to represent functions besides neural networks (harmonic analysis, polynomials, etc)
- other models exist besides neural networks. ie. if you can model the problem with a simple equation you can just optimize that.
- polynomial regression.
Someone who has read "numerical recipies" is probably more capable in solving ML problems than an "ML software engineer".
They don't.
A few other things they seem completely unaware of:
- other ways to represent functions besides neural networks (harmonic analysis, polynomials, etc)
- other models exist besides neural networks. ie. if you can model the problem with a simple equation you can just optimize that.
- polynomial regression.
Someone who has read "numerical recipies" is probably more capable in solving ML problems than an "ML software engineer".