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curiousgal on March 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Quick Look at Support Vector Machines

Many aspects of Machine Learning boil down to optimization problems.

rs86 on March 23, 2017 [–]

Well all of them do. In ML we always try to select the best description for a dataset, and that involves minimizing some function that represents some kind of goodness of fit

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