#1838: Machine Learning

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Cueball Prime holds a canoe paddle at his side and stands on top of a "big pile of linear algebra" containing a funnel labeled "data" and box labeled "answers". Cueball II stands to the left side of the panel.)]

Cueball II: This is your machine learning system?

Cueball Prime: Yup! You pour the data into this big pile of linear algebra, then collect the answers on the other side.

Cueball II: What if the answers are wrong?

Cueball Prime: Just stir the pile until they start looking right.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

The pile gets soaked with data and starts to get mushy over time, so it's technically recurrent.

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