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Re:Why is machine learning ‘hard’? by scoot on Saturday November 12, 2016 @02:29PM (#12939698)
> the answer is always along the lines of "just try a load of stuff and pick the one that works best"

Forgive the naive question, but why couldn't ML figure out its own best "stuff"?

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Re:Why is machine learning ‘hard’? by chongli on Saturday November 12, 2016 @03:34PM (#12940023)
Because then you've got to figure out how to tell the machine what best means and that's what you were setting out to do in the first place.
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Re:Why is machine learning ‘hard’? by Silfen on Saturday November 12, 2016 @02:35PM (#12939726)
This is pretty much what boosting is. Although we can ask the same question of the boosting algorithm, I guess.
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