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Re:The 'creepy Facebook AI' story that captivated the media by schoen on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @10:48PM (#14907543)
You might have seen it called "regression" (also "interpolation" and "extrapolation"), but not everyone has necessarily been exposed to this.
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Re:The 'creepy Facebook AI' story that captivated the media by TeMPOraL on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @06:54AM (#14909513)
Related, I used to jokingly explain mean-square-error approximation like this: there is this geometrical theorem, that you can drive a line through any three points on a plane, as long as the line is thick enough. So mean-square-error approximation is basically minimizing the thickness of that line :).
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Re:The 'creepy Facebook AI' story that captivated the media by backpropaganda on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @01:10AM (#14908097)
New favorite alternative term for deep learning: "nonlinear interpolation"
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