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fnord77
on Dec 13, 2020
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Is deep learning a new kind of programming?
wouldn't principal component analysis have done the same thing without the brute forcing?
scottlocklin
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The engineer wouldn't have been able to waste the week feeling fancy fiddling with GPUs in that case.
billo-ollib
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Since the variables are categorical, won't PCA have to be modified to use it effectively? To my knowledge, PCA can only be used for continuous variables.
shbm
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Yes. I think so. Or maybe some correlation plots. I doubt that a proper EDA was performed pre-modelling.
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