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Unsupervised learning is broad set of techniques that seek to infer structure from data, which is pretty fundamentally different from hypothesis testing. Where
by cgearhart 11y ago
Unsupervised learning is broad set of techniques that seek to infer structure from data, which is pretty fundamentally different from hypothesis testing. Where a hypothesis test asks "is <assertion> true about the structure in this data?", unsupervised techniques ask "is there any structure in this data?"
- graycat 11y agoWe're not communicating well. I said a little more in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10543615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10543615 just above.