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Re:How to teach a Bayesian spam filter to play chess by pixcavator on Saturday November 03, 2007 @07:28AM (#75752)
"Extrapolation is the process of constructing new data points outside a discrete set of known data points."
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Re:How to teach a Bayesian spam filter to play chess by aswanson on Saturday November 03, 2007 @08:35AM (#75764)
I have rethought what you have said, and I think I am now closer to understanding what your question is. You are posing the question of what to do with an input, not the operation itself. For instance, if I feed the network an image of 5 and 3, with the output being the image 8, the network would not perform addition but some other functional mapping. Is that the feature you are suggesting that it should 'understand'?
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Re:How to teach a Bayesian spam filter to play chess by pixcavator on Saturday November 03, 2007 @10:52PM (#75947)
Yes.
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Re:How to teach a Bayesian spam filter to play chess by aswanson on Saturday November 03, 2007 @08:22AM (#75760)
Right. Confusing extrapolation with interpolation.
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