Should 1 be the default? On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > To be clear, you can set it to any non-zero value you like but the > algorithm will adjust what it learns and you will get the same result. > > Setting the intercept to anything except 1 is thus a way to make your > program perversely hard for somebody to understand when they read your > program. > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> No just set the bias term to 1 in all cases. >> >> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM, damodar shetyo <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Is it required that i set the bias(intercept) equal to one only?Or can i >> > set it to any constant value x? >> > >> > Also How can choose value of bias for different types of data (other data >> > like spam .non spam /email data etc , or assigning category to news >> items) >>
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