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scoot
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Why is machine learning ‘hard’?
> the answer is always along the lines of "just try a load of stuff and pick the one that works best"
Forgive the naive question, but why couldn't ML figure out its own best "stuff"?
chongli
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Because then you've got to figure out how to tell the machine what
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means and that's what you were setting out to do in the first place.
Silfen
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This is pretty much what boosting is. Although we can ask the same question of the boosting algorithm, I guess.
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Forgive the naive question, but why couldn't ML figure out its own best "stuff"?