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I sincerely wish more people thought like this. Nothing is different about machine learning. It only performs better than OLS in a very specific subset of rich
by abakker 8y ago
I sincerely wish more people thought like this. Nothing is different about machine learning. It only performs better than OLS in a very specific subset of rich data, where improving prediction/action is important.
- rahimnathwani 8y agoI think of OLS as just one type of machine learning. OLS is great for many types of problem. For others, other techniques massively outperform them in some way (e.g. CNNs for classifying camera images or spectrograms of audio data). Even where OLS performs well, it seems other techniques can frequently do better.
- abakker 8y agoTotally fair, I guess what I was getting at (poorly) was that OLs has been around for a long time, lots of hype for ML now, but there are plenty of techniques here that have been readily available.