A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning [pdf](homes.cs.washington.edu)

77 pointsby denismars11 lat temu3 comments

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A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning [pdf]

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~pedrod/papers/cacm12.pdf

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atrilla11 lat temu

A very practical and useful collection of hints. I particularly support the point about tailoring the set of informative features. In the end, there is no free lunch for the "core" of the machine learning method (cf., http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/profile/dhw/papers/78.pdf).

Now deep learning seems to debunk the more-or-less usefulness of the feature extraction step.

mulligan11 lat temu

I still don't understand why papers are not dated.

lgas11 lat temu

I agree. Same with lots of articles on new sites, blogs, etc.

But for what it's worth this paper was published in the Oct 2012 issue of Communications of the ACM, so it's at least that old.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2347755