Being judgemental

September 18, 2024 (5mo ago)

We often think that being judgemental is a symbol of arrogance but that's not true everytime , sometimes it have its own benefits.

In 1996 ,David Wolpert gave NFL (No Free Lunch) Theorem for optimizations which stated

"That if you make no assumptions about data , then there is no way to identify which machine learing model works better than others."

For some datsets model A would perform better while for some datasets it won't , given that we make some assumptions about the data.

In real world it's not possible to train all machine learning model and evaluate them . so , we make some rational assumptions about the data to narrow down the choice of models which will perform better on that specific dataset.

Well well well , there is no such use of this theorem in real life , in almost all cases . The author himself rejected the use of this theorem :)

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