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Re:Machine learning is easier than it looks by DennisP on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @07:41PM (#6772353)
Translating in a nice programming language might work out more nicely, for coders at least.
Re:Machine learning is easier than it looks by andreasvc on Thursday November 21, 2013 @08:19AM (#6774512)
Not in the context of a length limited conference paper. An implementation adds details for memory allocation and use of data structures &c. This is a distraction in the exposition of an algorithm. It's useful if authors make a well commented implementation available, but the actual paper should contain an abstract definition of the algorithm.
Re:Machine learning is easier than it looks by DennisP on Thursday November 21, 2013 @08:39AM (#6774567)
No I was thinking of csmatt's suggestion, to automatically translate the math in the paper to something more accessible to programmers.
Re:Machine learning is easier than it looks by kskz on Thursday November 21, 2013 @02:26PM (#6776790)
Many mathematical concepts cannot be translated into programming, since computation is by definition discrete. For example, even a simple concept like irrational numbers cannot be completely captured by code.