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I don't think even this dichotomy is real. Deep learning methods are both performant and elegant.
by backpropaganda 9y ago
I don't think even this dichotomy is real. Deep learning methods are both performant and elegant.
- baq 9y agoThey're elegant only if the sentence 'consider a model with a billion features' doesn't make you feel disgusted, I'm afraid.
- backpropaganda 9y agoI sure hope you're not similarly disgusted by "consider a computer with a billion transistors". Computer Science is full of abstraction and complexity. Denying it to machine learning seems conservative and naive at best.
- trevyn 9y agoelegant, adjective: (of a scientific theory or solution to a problem) pleasingly ingenious and simple. One easily-described approach that is state-of-the-art in a massive number of domains? That's pretty f'ing elegant.