Will_Sawin comments on Statistical Prediction Rules Out-Perform Expert Human Judgments - Less Wrong

68 Post author: lukeprog 18 January 2011 03:19AM

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Comment author: mistercow 19 January 2011 05:14:38PM 0 points [-]

It's interesting to me that the proper linear model example is essentially a stripped down version of a very simple neural network with a linear activation function.

Comment author: Will_Sawin 21 January 2011 04:45:02AM 0 points [-]

I would argue that neurons, neural nets, SPRs, and everyone else doing linear regression use those techniques because it's the simplest way to aggregate data.