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EPISODE · Mar 9, 2018 · 27 MIN

The No Free Lunch Theorems

from Data Skeptic · host Kyle Polich and Linh Da Tran

What's the best machine learning algorithm to use? I hear that XGBoost wins most of the Kaggle competitions that aren't won with deep learning. Should I just use XGBoost all the time? That might work out most of the time in practice, but a proof exists which tells us that there cannot be one true algorithm to rule them.

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