AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by penagwin on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:29PM (#25256332)

This. I believe technically just linear regression could be considered "machine learning".

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by misnome on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:56PM (#25256698)

I've seen people at bio conferences actively calling linear regression machine learning.

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by diab0lic on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:51PM (#25257404)

This is likely because linear regression meets most widely accepted definitions of machine learning. [0][1] It is simple and very effective when learning in linear space.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html

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Re:AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in... by b3kart on Monday November 30, 2020 @06:22PM (#25260350)

Sorry, I don’t get it. Are you saying fitting a linear regression model to data and making predictions somehow isn’t machine learning? I am confused.

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