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relevantmeemayhere t1_j9kifhu wrote

Reply to comment by VirtualHat in [D] "Deep learning is the only thing that currently works at scale" by GraciousReformer

Linear models are often preferred for the reasons you mentioned. Under fitting is almost always preferred to overfitting.

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VirtualHat t1_j9ll5i2 wrote

Yes, that's right. For many problems, a linear model is just what you want. I guess what I'm saying is that the dividing line between when a linear model is appropriate vs when you want a more expressive model is often related to how much data you have.

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