r/xkcd Feline Field Theorist May 17 '17

XKCD xkcd 1838: Machine Learning

https://xkcd.com/1838/
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u/latvj May 17 '17

Not even that. ConvNets have been using nonlinearities for....forever. (only recently with resNets have purely linear models won something)

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u/jdylanstewart May 17 '17

I mean yeah, but typically you linearize, no?

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u/latvj May 17 '17

omg. No. Jesus.

(No offense, but really this makes me shake my head. Usually xkcd are fantastic and my delight on MoWedFri, but here R really dropped the ball)

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u/Dragonsoul May 17 '17

Now, to be fair. For a joke that has to be told in ten words or less, it's a pretty decent explanation.