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Seems to me that this is almost dangerous unless the uncertainty (and therefore confidence) of the prediction can be quantified.
by glial 8y ago
Seems to me that this is almost dangerous unless the uncertainty (and therefore confidence) of the prediction can be quantified.
- RA_Fisher 8y agoYep, it is dangerous. If you're not quantifying uncertainty, you can't make safe predictions. I think this is reason for the obsession with "data cleaning" in the ML community, "outliers" aka rare observations sink general models.