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Kernel structure discovery research code - likely to be unstable
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Will it ever be useful to separate the constant component of the linear kernel? #33

Closed jamesrobertlloyd closed 11 years ago

jamesrobertlloyd commented 11 years ago

Yes - the pure linear kernel is much easier to describe in words and is producing sensible models

https://github.com/jamesrobertlloyd/gpss-research/commit/ff1f7a823c6858a3da5b4cf96e6b166e24c79f71

duvenaud commented 11 years ago

Sweet, simplification FTW.

In retrospect, it seems crazy for it to have been in there in the first place - the linear kernel isn't actually describing a line, after all, so the y-intercept isn't meaningful.