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gwern comments on [Link] Better results by changing Bayes’ theorem - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: XiXiDu 09 March 2012 07:38PM

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Comment author: gwern 09 March 2012 07:48:25PM 0 points [-]

Why is this interesting?

Comment author: David_Gerard 09 March 2012 08:20:53PM 2 points [-]

Erm, its relation as an example to the quote the article starts with?

Comment author: gwern 09 March 2012 08:23:56PM 9 points [-]

Any other machine learning algorithm is a potential example for the observation 'naive token-by-token Bayes can be outperformed'.

Comment author: XiXiDu 09 March 2012 08:35:54PM 8 points [-]

Any other machine learning algorithm is a potential example for the observation 'naive token-by-token Bayes can be outperformed'.

I see. I didn't know this was the case. I am sorry if this is something really banal, it was new to me. Feel free to downvote it.