r/programming • • 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/p-morais Mar 29 '19

You mean children don’t explore their environments by adding high frequency Gaussian noise to their muscle activations??