My Advice To Machine Learning Newbies After 3 Years In The Game
- Stay away from unsupervised learning
- Skip neural networks
Plugging an on off-the-shelf model from sklearn is often enough for an MVP. While weeks of tuning a neural net might provide a couple extra points of f1, it’s often not worth it in the beginning. - Frame all problems as binary classification
- Tune your hyper-parameters
September 1, 2021 at 8:00:45 AM EDT
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