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I'd imagine it's a lot easier and more effective to teach middle schools basic probability first. All you need is a coin or a deck of cards to introduce them to
by Puer 8y ago
I'd imagine it's a lot easier and more effective to teach middle schools basic probability first. All you need is a coin or a deck of cards to introduce them to real world examples.
- nerdponx 8y agoNot to mention that machine learning without at least some probabilistic intuition is asking for trouble in many applications.
- meesterdude 8y agofor image classification? I don't think so.
- nerdponx 8y agoMaybe for copying and pasting MNIST-in-Keras. But to even understand and make good use of cross-validation, you absolutely need to understand expected values, sample size, and the bias/variance tradeoff. That's all statistical intuition that depends more or less directly on a basic understanding of and healthy respect for probability.