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This is less a criticism of the paper than it is a statement of misaligned expectations. > but the mechanism behind this is entirely hand-waving. The objectiv
by tntn 7y ago
This is less a criticism of the paper than it is a statement of misaligned expectations.
> but the mechanism behind this is entirely hand-waving.
The objective of this paper was not to specify, or even attempt to specify, the mechanism.
> The paper's use of machine learning seems entirely pointless, basically drawing the obvious line between the two sets of points.
Yeah, that is pretty much the entire objective of SVMs.
- feanaro 7y ago> Yeah, that is pretty much the entire objective of SVMs. Which is hard to do by hand in many dimensions but almost trivial in 2. I haven't read the paper but maybe the OP is complaining about something like that?
- kens 7y agoYes, the data is essentially 1-dimensional and looks like "CCC MMMMMMMM". (Seriously, look at Figure 2 graph H in the paper.) It seems entirely gratuitous to use machine learning to build a SVM classifier to separate the C's from the M's, when it's obvious that the C's are on the left and the M's on the right.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoPerhaps the use of machine learning helped to acquire funding, or enabled the researchers to acquire skills for future projects.