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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on [Link] AlphaGo: Mastering the ancient game of Go with Machine Learning - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 29 January 2016 01:00:57PM 1 point [-]

The key point is that machine learning starts to happen at the hyper-parameter level. Which is one more step toward systems that optimize themselves.

Comment author: gwern 29 January 2016 05:02:02PM 1 point [-]

A step which was taken a long time ago and does not seem to have played much of a role in recent developments; for the most part, people don't bother with extensive hyperparameter tuning. Better initialization, better algorithms like dropout or residual learning, better architectures, but not hyperparameters.