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xkcd #1838

Machine Learning

by Randall MunroePublished: License: CC BY-NC 2.5

Comic: Machine Learning (xkcd #1838). Transcript below.

Machine Learning © Randall Munroe · xkcd · CC BY-NC 2.5

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

Why it lands

A fair summary of how machine learning looks from the outside, and sometimes from the inside: a pile of linear algebra that gets stirred until the answers look right. The hover text is a pun on recurrent neural networks.

Transcript

  1. THIS IS YOUR MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM?
  2. YUP! YOU POUR THE DATA INTO THIS BIG PILE OF LINEAR ALGEBRA, THEN COLLECT THE ANSWERS ON THE OTHER SIDE.
  3. WHAT IF THE ANSWERS ARE WRONG?
  4. JUST STIR THE PILE UNTIL THEY START LOOKING RIGHT.
  5. DATA
  6. ANSWERS

Credits

Original
Machine Learning — Randall Munroe, xkcd

The English page shows the original image unmodified. The Japanese page shows an adaptation by wtfe²: the lettering was erased from the art and replaced with a Japanese translation. The adaptation is shared under the same license as the original.