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Re:A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and Stochastic G... by YeGoblynQueenne on Sunday December 09, 2018 @01:12PM (#18642278)
It's an especially egregious example, but everybody makes assumptions that they can't guarantee will hold.
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Re:A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and Stochastic G... by mlthoughts2018 on Sunday December 09, 2018 @10:33PM (#18644979)
The first part of your comment doesn’t seem related to the second part, and neither part seems related to the question of whether most applied problems do or do not benefit from making a distinction between the sampling distribution used for generating training and test data and the “true” distribution.
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