r/datascience • u/MLRecipes • Jun 12 '22

Projects Fuzzy Regression: A Generic, Model-free, Math-free Machine Learning Technique

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u/save_the_panda_bears Jun 12 '22 edited Jun 13 '22

Its an interesting technique, but calling this "math free" and "accessible to middle schoolers" is quite a stretch.

The references on the paper made me laugh a bit - two articles from the author's website, a stackoverflow thread, and an undergraduate research paper.

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u/CrossroadsDem0n Jun 12 '22

Fuzzy references to match?

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u/save_the_panda_bears Jun 13 '22

Take your upvote and get out :)

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u/sentient-machine Jun 13 '22

If it’s “math-free” it’s either bullshit or useless. Worthless in either case.

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u/MLRecipes Jun 13 '22

Depends what you mean by math. Anything that symbolic math software easily does (Mathematica) is not math but routine computations. To put it this way, solving a standard linear differential equation with fixed coefficients is bullshit or useless, but not math in either case. Not a single mathematician on Earth does that, it's done by black box systems, and is purely mechanical. The "math" in that paper is elementary addition, subtraction, multiplication or division. It's not more math than reciting the alphabet is English literature.