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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