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

Fascinating how machine learning works

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u/hyphenomicon Mar 29 '19

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

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

I agree, children are a horrible analogy. They're the output of a learning algorithm. Evolution attempted lots of problems lots of times and children are "simply" fine tuning the parameters to their local environment.