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[–] [email protected] 74 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Your neural network just learned to flawlessly answer any question you send it! Time to put it to good use!

Start asking the important questions!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No, this is because the testing set can be derived from the training set.

Overfitting alone can't get you to 1.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So as an eli5, that's basically that you have to "ask" it stuff it has never heard before? AI has come after my time in higher education.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yes.

You train it on some data, and ask it about different data. Otherwise it just hard-codes the answers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

They're just like us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Gotcha, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yes, it's called a train test split, and is often 80/20 or there about

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I like how specifically this relates to my experience with the discount factor gamma in Reinforcement Learning. Like, pretty close to the exact numbers (though missing 0.99 and 0.999)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Have you tried some data augmentation?