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Re:ML on Apple ][+ by nekudotayim on Monday September 29, 2025 @02:09PM (#45416890)
What is ML if not interpolation and extrapolation?
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Re:ML on Apple ][+ by magic_hamster on Monday September 29, 2025 @02:35PM (#45417183)
A million things.

Diffusion, back propagation, attention, to name a few.

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Re:ML on Apple ][+ by have-a-break on Monday September 29, 2025 @02:55PM (#45417400)
Back prop and attention are just extensions of interpolation.
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Re:ML on Apple ][+ by rob_c on Monday September 29, 2025 @04:56PM (#45418659)
By that logic it's all "just linear maths".

Back prop requires and limits to analytically differentiable in a normal way.

Attention is... Oh dear comparing linear regression to attention is comparing a diesel jet engine to a horse.

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Re:ML on Apple ][+ by aleph_naught on Monday September 29, 2025 @05:11PM (#45418811)
It's all just a series of S(S(S(....S(0)))) anyways.
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