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The irreducible error is unrelated to the bias/variance trade-off. It's part of the overall error of course, but the bias/variance error is in addition to that
by nightski 9y ago
The irreducible error is unrelated to the bias/variance trade-off. It's part of the overall error of course, but the bias/variance error is in addition to that. Unless I am misunderstanding your point.
- taeric 9y agoSorry, I did not mean to be that they were the same. And, to that point, I was greatly projecting based on my beliefs that have grown. The number one thing I keep having to re-stress and learn is that these are probabilistic models. So, if anything, I only meant they were related in that they are both good targets to internalize when working with ML. If there are better targets, I'm definitely interested in learning more.
- xapata 9y agoUltimately, everything is a probabilistic model. It'd be ridiculously impractical to try to incorporate all of one's knowledge into an analytic model. Instead, we generalize as appropriate and encapsulate the rest as a random variable, sometimes called "error". Plus, God plays dice and all that.