neither is a data scientist i think we're getting off track
which is a classic data science move uh so this is still on brand
we all want to find love we really do we want to and yet things like this exist out there
so today i'm going to cover baba brinkman's data science music video this is a hip hop rap battle
between a statistician and a data scientist i'm going to be strong i'm gonna be strong for mother
you guys uh be strong for me by tapping that like button down below and if you want to see
more reaction videos where i put myself through torturous situations now that i've heard the
song yet but i've heard the first 12 seconds and hopefully you guys can stay until the end because
i certainly hope i can a little context the reason why i'm doing this is because ken g sent this to
his private discord as a fiesta resistance of his uh youtube rabbit hole that he went down one day
and yeah this is uh this is something i want to share with you because i haven't seen this video
yet so i wanted to unpack it uh with all of you so that i don't have to suffer alone here we go
academic classical statistics
okay um there's some charts in the background um it has uh it seems like log loss on the right side
uh and it looks like there is a neural network on the left side hip-hop wise this gets a 4 out
of 10. uh data science-wise this gets a 5 out of 10 at least it's at least it makes sense so far
i mean he didn't make any concrete claims about data science um he could have he could have
owned them with hard statistical facts but instead all he said was like data science is
a fad which i guess is driving at the heart of data science insecurity so in that sense
good job baba brinkman can i call you baba is that okay
too bad it doesn't work so good though does it is the statistician trying to say that statistics
hold on okay so the data scientist is like the machine learning engineer essentially
and the statistician is the person who like thinks statistics is a little more
transparent even though they're not on the same playing field algorithms are just
that's good uh that's really good actually
i'm gonna subscribe bob uh i'm already subscribed i just subscribed directly prior to this
video i like that dating models
models that's i made that drug before i don't think zuckerberg knows how these models work
oh that's the point is that he doesn't know how it works and he's rich okay i got you now that's
pretty good the explainability here is that um for most advanced machine learning methods that uh
the coefficients of regression or classification are not interpretable based on the features that
are selected uh and that is fair to say but it's not like we don't understand how it
works it's just that we don't understand it's not understanding the math behind how it works is not
the same as not understanding which features make a model arrive at the final prediction
so that's the that's the most important part if you get anything out of this video
is that if you understand machine learning then you do know how the math works you just at the end
of the day for more complex algorithms don't know what features are directly impacting the final
reveal how decisions functions all i need is a model with articulated assumptions is that too
much to ask from the data analysts show your work that's basic practice but they can't handle it
move fast break things it just isn't right not at the expense of parsimony and scientific insight
it's like i wish the statistician had more of a stake because it seems like the statistician is
just breaking down what the data scientist does and then the data science is like yeah
here is also what i do so i feel like this is from the double perspective of a data scientist
um whereas we could be talking about the statistician as well maybe the second half
of the song maybe i'm jumping the ship we've only two minutes in it feels like it's been a lifetime
but it really has only been two minutes quantum physics never discovered exoplanets neither is
a data scientist i think we're getting off track which is a classic data science move
uh so this is still on brand you're the one with the model backwards we get results
the lyricism is actually pretty impressive and the way the way the data science is so obscene
with his pink hair uh i i dig the aesthetic now i cringed into a black hole and now the merged
on the other side and now i'm i like it in a satirical way which i'm imagining is also the
way that he wants us to like it as well if that's your position then i'm a converted mathematician
first check if it works and then unpack the algorithm with statistical methods
that's just more for us to proceed just don't lose sight of the random forest for the trees
oh baba brinkman god that's good i wanna i wanna write raps now
um well you heard it here if i start writing rap battles it's because of baba
brinkmann the data scientist is saying that the very first black box was nature
however nature is a different type of black box because we're assuming we're
talking about natural selection and natural selection is just randomness with clear
like explainability when it comes back to why does this animal look this way well it either
doesn't impede its progress and two it helps its progress it's one or the other for specific black
boxes like a neural network we have no idea why it ends up in a decision uh because we can't reverse
interpret it with whatever coefficients that we see um so not the same kind of black box i have
a feeling baba brinkman's a data scientist because the statistician other than having a beard hasn't
really talked about what he does on a day-to-day basis except wear a suit wear glasses and is old
wow there was three people working on this four people uh i'm glad i got through it uh i'm glad
content exists out here to make it a little more presentable and reachable out there if you want me
to react to more stuff like this then go ahead and comment down below make sure to like this
video because otherwise i have no idea if this was a good uh review content at all and uh and i
appreciate you have a nice day continue to support weird creators like this especially like me
and as always i will see you guys in the next video bye bye not just kidding peace
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