Machine Learning with Swift

Machine learning gremlins

Ben Hamner, a data scientist at Kaggle, referred to common machine learning gotchas as ML gremlins.

You can watch Ben's original talk at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tleeC-KlsKA.

I like the metaphor because it makes my brain think about evil characters rather than some vague, abstract concepts. In addition to the original gremlins presented by Ben, I want to add several of my own and also present a taxonomy of gremlins (see the following diagram). I employed this metaphor throughout this chapter to avoid boring issues and problems when discussing how to identify and neutralize those pests:

Figure 13.3: The simplified ...