About the author:
Gene Marks is founder of The Marks Group, a small-business consulting firm.
So, we have some d-bag who tells companies how to squeeze more money from their people saying stuff like:
Corporate employees work hard, I'm sure. But they love their time off, too. Want to get something done with a large corporation? Forget about August, or most of the summer " or December, or most of the holiday season. And forget the first part of January, for that matter, or any holiday, be it in this country or the country where they reside.
Yeah! How dare employees be people with families who want to spend holidays doing something other than toiling away for higher ups to get bigger bonuses and/or stock options while they get a membership in the Jelly of the Month Club. What ridiculous, entitled ------!
And while you're away from work spending time with your family?
Most of the replies basically tell the sender to forget about doing anything with them until they return. Is this the behavior of someone valuable to shareholders? Can workers just disappear for weeks on end and everything continues as is?
If that describes you, it's not a great sign.
Remember, you shouldn't view your life through the prism of your personal wants, desires, family ect but how to represent the greatest SHAREHOLDER VALUE! And you better not dare expect to spend time with your family while you're not working because you're expected to be available for work!
But let's get right to the actual point, shall we?
Business owners and key employees can never really be out of the office.
Yup! If you want to be "valuable," don't you dare ever expect to be out of the office! You must work tirelessly and endlessly for the C-suite and shareholder's gain or else be seen as no valuable enough to keep around!
They want people who are not hesitant to jump into challenges and who will solve their problems. They need workers who say "yes." If you're that type of person and can leverage AI to do the job of three people, then you have a higher chance of job security.
But don't you dare be one of those people with a life or family! Everyone should seek to live in a one bedroom apartment all alone with a matress in the corner of the bedroom, a folding camp chair with a TV on a milk crate in the living room and a freezer full of TV dinners and a cupboard full of instant ramen and mac and cheese to avoid down time!
Hopefully you will have learned that every organization wants valuable people. And they will always cut the ones who aren't. As they are doing right now.
What this douchebag wants are slaves. Let's just put the real word in there to ensure he's being completely clear.
Backpropagation explicitly computes the contribution of every hidden unit via gradients. If those contributions were unknowable, training wouldn't work.
Rumelhart etc, Nature, 1986. A foundational paper for ML.
Data science was my capstone dude.