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What is the accuracy interpretability tradeoff?

What is the accuracy interpretability tradeoff?

- [Instructor] So what exactly is this accuracy interpretability trade-off? Well, on the internet, you'll find dozens and dozens of charts like this one, but it's not always clear exactly what is being measured on the x and y-axis. It's mostly just being asserted to be true. One fact of agreement to everyone, and it certainly is true, is that linear regression belongs in the upper left corner and deep learning belongs in the lower right. However, it's rarely clear in blog posts or in videos you may find whether the author did some kind of experiment or if they're attempting to generalize. However, if you want a serious discussion of this, and it definitely is a real phenomenon, it's hard to improve upon the extremely influential book "Introduction to Statistical Learning" by two giants of the field, Hastie and Tibshirani, and their coauthors. Hastie has a website supporting the book that you see here, and he also makes the…

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