Exemplar Programming

An interesting take on machine learning over at the machine learning theory blog:

Exemplar Programming

Here's a snip:

Machine learning can be thought of as exemplar programming. Exemplar programming is creating examples of a (input,output) pairs which are used by an algorithm to predict a function from input to output.

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Exemplar programming is a viewpoint of machine learning which (mostly) ignores statistics, prior information, and the possibility of overfitting. That’s a great deal to ignore, but there are gains as well.

jase.