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Re:Show HN: McFly, a smart Bash history search CLI in Rust w... by tectonic on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @12:37PM (#18601607)
I started with a list of commands prioritized by a linear function of the metrics listed. It did okay, but since I was learning the linear function with back propagation, I figured a "real" network would do slightly better, and it seems to (but possibly only slightly).
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Re:Show HN: McFly, a smart Bash history search CLI in Rust w... by 0db532a0 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @01:20PM (#18602095)
That’s interesting. What’s the more real network than the one with back propagation?
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Re:Show HN: McFly, a smart Bash history search CLI in Rust w... by tectonic on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @01:49PM (#18602414)
Rather, the first one was simply a single node linear perceptron (a linear function) that I trained with backprop because I could, even though there are better techniques for fitting a linear function. Now that it's a "real" network, backprop is appropriate.
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Re:Show HN: McFly, a smart Bash history search CLI in Rust w... by 0db532a0 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @02:09PM (#18602656)
Makes sense. Thanks.
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