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Re:Is deep learning a new kind of programming? by fnord77 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:18AM (#25404920)
wouldn't principal component analysis have done the same thing without the brute forcing?
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Re:Is deep learning a new kind of programming? by scottlocklin on Sunday December 13, 2020 @03:23AM (#25405134)
The engineer wouldn't have been able to waste the week feeling fancy fiddling with GPUs in that case.
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Re:Is deep learning a new kind of programming? by billo-ollib on Sunday December 13, 2020 @10:08AM (#25407039)
Since the variables are categorical, won't PCA have to be modified to use it effectively? To my knowledge, PCA can only be used for continuous variables.
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Re:Is deep learning a new kind of programming? by shbm on Sunday December 13, 2020 @08:10AM (#25406325)
Yes. I think so. Or maybe some correlation plots. I doubt that a proper EDA was performed pre-modelling.
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