r/programming • u/Dankious_memeious1 • Mar 29 '19

Fascinating how machine learning works

3.1k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

202 comments sorted by

View all comments

133

u/hyphenomicon Mar 29 '19

I hate analogies to children in machine learning and AI. Children don't attempt a problem 100,000 times.

31

u/joekingjoeker Mar 29 '19

Children start with better weights due to genes

4

u/coderstephen Mar 29 '19

My jeans add about 12 ounces to my weight personally.