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Re:Artificial data give the same results as real data withou... by hyperbovine on Monday March 19, 2018 @09:27AM (#16618163)
Agreed, seems suspect. If they are really able to learn the population-level distribution then why even bother generating fake data. Just release that instead.
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Re:Artificial data give the same results as real data withou... by bunderbunder on Monday March 19, 2018 @11:12AM (#16618952)
Well, just knowing a few distributions wouldn't be great for building machine learning models.
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