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[madenine]

I'll second that. For all the attention DL/ANNs get... there's still a lot of legwork going on out there using linear models, basic trees, etc. IIRC this years kaggle survey ranked Logistic Regression as the #1 most used model by a long shot.

[make3 → madenine]

neural networks are stacked logistic regressions. a lot of the deep learning research benefits logistic regression