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To be fair he did explain that he thought that the host name might be indicative of whether or not it would be druck. If he knew exactly how that was the case (
by BWStearns 12y ago
To be fair he did explain that he thought that the host name might be indicative of whether or not it would be druck. If he knew exactly how that was the case (and if it was already known that it did have effect), why bother with machine learning? Just write an explicit scoring mechanism.
- zmk_ 12y agoIt did seem to me that this was an interpretation that he came up with after he tired many different pipelines and "flipped all the switches". There are many sources of randomness that warrant using statistical methods. But it feels strange to me to see people use these tools without giving much thought to parameter stability, parameter significance, causality, model selection in general.