Comment by dominotw
4 hours ago
> Machine learning, at its core, is about generalization, not memorization.
Well they memorize the patterns.
memorization doesnt mean rote learning.
4 hours ago
> Machine learning, at its core, is about generalization, not memorization.
Well they memorize the patterns.
memorization doesnt mean rote learning.
Does '110001111000000011111111111' contain n>1∧∀d(d|n→(d=1∨d=n)) as well as infinite number of other generalizations?
I don't take issue with that. Attempting memorized pattern generalization through holdout / validation strategies is a big part of ML that you would not typically see with econometrics / psychometrics / possibly sabermetrics / most other -metrics. Philosophically the explain versus predict divide. https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/shmueli.pdf
That's a bit pedantic no. Memorization in ML refers to the model having the wrong level of capacity such that it's too hard to optimise it such that it doesn't memorize the _training examples_ themselves.