Re:Introduction to Learning Rates in Machine Learning
by mochomocha on Thursday May 23, 2019 @10:35AM
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This is an extremely poor article. I appreciate the efforts towards democratizing machine learning... But without sounding like a gatekeepr, there's a limit to this. Reading an introductory material on convex optimization will give you a better understanding of what a learning rate is than all these hyped "AI for noobs without math" blog posts.
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Re:Introduction to Learning Rates in Machine Learning
by rspen on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:01PM
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I'm totally in agreement with you here. The issue is that many of the people writing these posts are in the process of learning themselves and don't know what they don't know (Dunning-Kruger effect) and because they skip over a lot of the theoretical details it is very easy to have missteps. Having a decent theoretical basis is absolutely necessary to be anything beyond a hobbyist in ML.