How come you have applied the best strategies to make the best decision, yet the solution you arrived at did not stand against the expectations? How come you have spent so much time on analyzing the data, but the solution did not bring the happiness you were after? How come you have dissected the problem […]
Let’s say you are making progress in spurts. You live comfortably from one day to another until you encounter a certain idea. Not an idea. A strong idea. Perhaps you read a book. Or you listen to the news. Perhaps you overhear a conversation in a bus. Or your colleague shares his unusual strategy for success. Perhaps […]
How do you recognize a conscious being? Imagine a completely unknown creature is approaching you. A strange creature, nothing you have seen in your life so far. Your mind is puzzled. Your heart is beating fast. You do not know what to think. You are not sure what you feel. You are curious. You are scared. This […]
Despite the elegance and necessity of generalization, there is however a danger to its use. It is the case when we generalize from examples which are unrepresentative for the given concept. If this happens, they are often too few in number. When I say “unrepresentative” I mean that the examples do not sufficiently illustrate the characteristics […]
In the previous post I discussed some aspects of learning a concept from examples. We will now connect it to…. Generalization Generalization is the ability to learn a concept or a class from a set of examples. In short, generalization is our way of capturing sameness or similarity between objects. By “objects” we understand all […]