Re:Machine learning is fundamentally conservative
by laretluval on Saturday January 04, 2020 @12:48PM
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What are the algorithms that can dismiss “indirect correlation”? How can you tell a direct from an indirect correlation in data?
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Re:Machine learning is fundamentally conservative
by marcosdumay on Saturday January 04, 2020 @01:53PM
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> What are the algorithms that can dismiss “indirect correlation”?
Anything that doesn't get stuck on local maxima do.
> How can you tell a direct from an indirect correlation in data?
There is another variable, with stronger correlation, that explains the same change.