Week 8: Journal Questions
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Looking at the photo shown above, write several sentences about what you can infer about what is taking place in the photo.
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Based on the reading, what might a convolutional, deep neural network be able to infer about this same photo?
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At the top of page 75, Mitchell writes that "the units in a
ConvNet act as detectors for important visual features, each
unit looking for a its preferred feature in a specific part
of the visual field." How is this different from how a
typical sigmoid unit operates in a standard layered neural
network?
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On page 88, Mitchell states that "a cardinal rule in machine learning is don't train on the test data." Explain the significance of this rule.