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Actually it would be really interesting to see code that attempts to e.g. classify MNIST digits from first principles. No neural nets, no GBDTs, no clustering.
by salamo 4y ago
Actually it would be really interesting to see code that attempts to e.g. classify MNIST digits from first principles. No neural nets, no GBDTs, no clustering. And no cheating by trying to translate the above into if-then statements. Seems next to impossible.
- jxidjhdhdhdhfhf 4y agoI recall Andrej Karpathy saying that people originally tried to do that for image classification (such as cats/dogs problem) and weren't able to get anything close to high accuracy.
- kaba0 4y agoSlightly relevant, Viola–Jones Face-Detection Algorithms pretty much does “manual” face recognition.