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It's more than just statistics, broadly speaking that is the scientific process.
by arcanus 11y ago
It's more than just statistics, broadly speaking that is the scientific process.
- vonmoltke 11y agoIt is part of the scientific process, just as it is part of the machine learning process. The hypothesis has to come from somewhere. In classic science, it comes from a scientist or group of scientists who notice something strange or see a correlation, devise an explanation, then test it to see of it is correct. Unsupervised machine learning just automates the second and part of the first step by having one or more algorithms devise the hypotheses instead of humans. ML is still supposed to do the third step. IMO, where ML often falls down due to the immaturity of the field is in not creating good experiments to test the models (hypotheses) generated by the algorithms.
- pwm 11y agoSide note: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a classic read about "The hypothesis has to come from somewhere".