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Teaching to machines: What is learning in machine learning entails?

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Preamble Ebbinghaus (WikipediaMachine Learning (ML) is now a de-facto skill for every quantitative job and almost every industry embraced it, even though fundamentals of the field is not new at all. However, what does it mean to teach to a machine? Unfortunately, for even moderate technical people...

Understanding overfitting: an inaccurate meme in supervised learning

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Kindly reposted to KDnuggets by Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro with the title Understanding overfitting: an inaccurate meme in machine learning Preamble There is a lot of confusion among practitioners regarding the concept of overfitting. It seems like, a kind of an urban legend or a meme, a folklore...