>Pinterest has a Head of Diversity [1]. Her name is Candice and she's great.
I think the question is: What does the role actually do? The cynic in me says it exists to signal that your company cares about diversity. Okay, but after the hiring decision is made, based on whatever criteria make the company properly diverse, what happens? Does this person act as a recruiter for underrepresented people?
>Calling a company with a head of diversity bloated for instance is telling of your politics.
Calling a company with a head of diversity-- and that loses tons of money-- bloated, is sensible business acumen. Unless you blame earnings woes on diversity issues.
>But we will also see a huge proportion of sites that could use it continue to ignore it for years to come. There are big business opportunities in finding ways of making a dent in that portion of the market
I agree with this wholeheartedly. I think there are pockets of HN that are out of touch with the reality in SMBs across the country (and planet). Often these businesses are struggling to track data, let alone utilize it for decision making or analyze it any sophisticated manner. "Out-of-the-box" ML will be another tool in the toolbelt in these instances.
So, sure, if you are trying to build Massive ML Tech Co., you won't be able to hire a few devs who watched a ML series on Coursera to achieve that goal. But there's ample opportunity to apply that knowledge elsewhere.
Good thing the vast majority of businesses won't need "serious" ML, but instead will require only simple implementations to help solve business problems.
How valuable is this without any of the discussion context surrounding these books? It seems unlikely that I'm going to purchase a book based on a metric like "mentions", when much of the discussion could be negative. I mean, I get it from the perspective of scraping/development practice, but it doesn't feel overly useful. And I'm a book hunter.
So why aren't the sellers before PE and buyers after PE aware of the fact that no value is being added by PE in the interim, and hence sell cheaply and overpay?
Why is it so obvious to you, but not these other people? How does this charade perpetuate? Maybe there is value in there somewhere?
The NFL nailed it with Sunday games (although more and more are added to the schedule). It allowed you to to follow the sport closely without memorizing a team schedule, and every fan had the day off from work to watch. I wish more sports followed that system. It was easy to get into.
I still enjoy watching the game, but sadly it's become a sport I watch but won't play (or have my kids play).
I don't think either method worked.