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Re:Leaf: Machine learning framework in Rust by tomp on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @10:14AM (#11245669)
> how is it possible to learn superhuman performance in anything from examples of mere human performance at the same task? I don't believe in magic.

Computers could be better at assigning probabilities to ambiguous examples. In particular, for an image that is very ambiguous for most humans, maybe a computer would assign 99% probability to it (hence it would be only a little bit ambiguous).

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Re:Leaf: Machine learning framework in Rust by YeGoblynQueenne on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @04:57PM (#11249071)
That's not how it works. Assigning a high probability to anything is trivial: just add 90% to any probability calculation. The important thing is how close your guess is to the right answer.
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