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Problem is, I doubt he would have blogged this if the better algorithm had beaten the larger dataset. As it happens, I broadly agree with his conclusion (data
by danohuiginn 19y ago
Problem is, I doubt he would have blogged this if the better algorithm had beaten the larger dataset.
As it happens, I broadly agree with his conclusion (data trumps algorithms), but cherrypicking data-points doesn't provide any evidence for it.
- dnaquin 19y agoFor that conclusion, we need more data.
- mlinsey 19y agoI'm not familiar with this guy's site so I'm not sure if he means something more nuanced, but "more data beats better algorithms" is too vague a claim to test by picking any number of datapoints. 100 datapoints will of course beat 1,000 datapoints if the former is selected via a random sampling that uses a uniform distribution across the entire population with no response bias and the latter is selected by asking the first 1,000 people you happen to see.