Lazyweb, a question: let's say that you could teach a "cultural anthropology" type of course about computing to first year students, to prepare them for the codebases, communities, patterns and software philosophies of the programming world. You've got about ten weeks to run it. What would you teach in that course and why?
(RTs appreciated for reach.)
@mhoye Lots of great answers already in the thread. I think that, in 2024, there needs to be at least one session on "ML/AI In Practice"...
* how is training a model different than writing an algorithm
* how to think about data, about training, about inference
* how to improve the quality of a classifier, a predictor, a transformer
* what people with ML/AI backgrounds expect to get from software engineers, and what you should expect from them
* how to talk about safety, bias, and error
mhoye
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