Re:An introduction to machine learning through polynomial re...
by rickdeveloper on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @05:56PM
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Thank you so much for your feedback!
You are completely right and I have updated the post. (should be online within a few minutes.)
> You cover a lot of topics in this blog post which have a lot of nuance and depth (e.g. random initial weights) that merit whole posts on their own.
I agree the post is quite long. The reason for that is because I wrote the initial version for Google Code In, a programming competition for high schoolers. It had to cover a list of concepts and I wanted to explain them well instead of just giving a quick introduction so it ended up being quite long.
It would definitely be interesting to write another article on symmetry braking some time.
Why do you use gradient descent when you can use a closed-form solution to solve the regression? It would be nice to discuss both gradient descent and the closed-form solution.
You cover a lot of topics in this blog post which have a lot of nuance and depth (e.g. random initial weights) that merit whole posts on their own.