Re: Feature Engineeriing!
The mistake is the same in both cases. The solution is not better features,
but to abandon the assumption those features organize themselves in only one
way.
-Rob
On Thursday 03 March 2005 17:59, John F. Sowa wrote:
> For years, the people who were working with neural nets
> and other learning systems were hyping the claim that
> they did away with "knowledge engineers" because they
> didn't need rules, frames, formulas, etc.
>
> But now they discovered that these learning systems don't
> really learn all by themselves -- somebody has to analyze
> the subject domain and select some set of "features" for
> the learning systems to work with. Since they had already
> got rid of the knowledge engineers, they now discovered
> a totally new breed of "feature engineers".
>
> Come drink the feature soup -- formerly known as knowledge soup.
>
> John Sowa