'(amazing generative power of the english language)

[alexr_rwx]

"We can view the perceptron as representing a hyperplane decision surface in the n-dimensional space of instances (i.e., points)."
-- Tom M. Mitchell, Machine Learning, the neural networks chapter

... I just like that sentence. Not a particularly earth-shattering idea, but it's a pretty sentence. Everybody likes AI. Everybody.

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[agonistes]

What makes it pretty?

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

It's a pretty idea, expressed concisely and effectively (in the context of the rest of the paragraph), and the phrase "decision surface" is very nice and means exactly what he wants it to mean, even though I don't think it's a standard term.

But he's like "I need a phrase to describe a thing that floats in this space and divides things up, helping you decide which things are what". "decision surface". Perfect :)

[agonistes]

Ah. All right. Because otherwise...there are problems with it. But the turn of phrase apparently works, and this is good.

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