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How is "the most likely prediction" not a "single prediction that you can take the difference with"?
by anamexis 7y ago
How is "the most likely prediction" not a "single prediction that you can take the difference with"?
- derf_ 7y agoWhat if there are two (nearly) equally likely predictions? What if there are N, and they are not close together? "A single prediction that you can take the difference with" makes some assumptions about the shape of your distribution, at least under any reasonable model of "code the difference" where, e.g., probability decreases as the difference gets larger. These are often very good assumptions, to be fair.