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If you try your hand at machine learning, you learn very quickly that 95% of your amazing bright ideas don't work. I wonder why we can't tell the good ideas fr
by ced 18y ago
If you try your hand at machine learning, you learn very quickly that 95% of your amazing bright ideas don't work.
I wonder why we can't tell the good ideas from the bad ones. There has got to be some core principles that are not properly known. After all, backpropagation neural networks are exactly an idea of the "bright and ingenious" kind, but it actually works.
I was very disappointed that the Stanford Machine Learning lectures were almost exclusively about "how" and not about "why".
- pchristensen 18y agoI was very disappointed that the Stanford Machine Learning lectures were almost exclusively about "how" and not about "why". Maybe they don't know why? You'd have to know the core principles to know why.
- ced 18y agoBut then... How did they come up with all these learning algorithms? Do all researchers have that 95% failure rate?
- khafra 18y agoPerhaps it's a fuzzy version of the halting problem.