The No Free Lunch Theorems

Data Skeptic

Episode | Podcast

Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:00:00 +0000

<p>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.</p>