k-NN is simple to write and a good test of vectorization and the lazy-learner tradeoff. The signal is a clean vectorized distance computation and knowing why naive prediction is O(n) and how to speed it. Here is the implementation.
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k-NN is simple to write and a good test of vectorization and the lazy-learner tradeoff. The signal is a clean vectorized distance computation and knowing why naive prediction is O(n) and how to speed it. Here is the implementation.
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