It depends on how long cheap money will be available. It can be that the market is changing tack at the moment. A lot of capital is flowing in bonds at this moment.
In our environment, the scientist builds the models, the engineer makes them run. Both can code (the scientist to build models, the engineer to execute models).
Yeah right. We are using nosql in manufacturing. One second data for thousands of instruments create a lot of data very quickly. And that is per plant. Having a lot of plants at various sites in the world adds up.
We used two convolutional neural networks, one for each side of the weld. Features extracted by these nets are then concatenated, as well as the meta data. Two fully connected layers are then applied on this vector, giving the final prediction.
Everything was trained on the raw images resized to 20x150 pixels.