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I posit that complex NN models can achieve the same level of interpretability as logistic regression. In part, because some interpretability methods use logistic regression as a white box model to explain black boxes. In other words: If you
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Both a fault of the employees that worked on this, and the manager. Your deliverable should be an interpretable model. You can (and probably should) make neural network models interpretable. If upper management does not trust your performan
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k-nearest neighbors classification is one of the first non-linear supervised learning algorithms. Its predictions are derived from the data sample distances. It is basically a glorified fuzzy lookup table, but then again, so can one view
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Yeah, I cared about this issue. I think it is an interesting direction that tech is going in, and to see some pushback against the identity politics/social justice movement. Perhaps comparable to changing the name Black Hat so to not o
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Agree on 2. If only someone in the US administration really hated what he calls "Fake News" by established media and "Made-up anonymous sources". "Won't anybody think of the poor economy! These unfounded storie
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%F0%9F%8D%A0 progress (HN does not like emoji's it strips them: cool URL's don't change)
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Likely influenced in part by survivor bias. I don't have a PhD either. You can say I have a more practical than theoretical understanding of dropout. The way to get past HR gatekeepers is to bypass HR. If you ask an employee: "Hey
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Game development always scared me as one of those studies that you hope your kids don't get interested in. Another one is manual drawing, especially when it is Anime (what are the chances that someone from a small European country is g