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100% agree.

It was great how he spent a lot of time on logistic regression before delving into SVM's or Neural Nets - it was much easier to understand the cost functions & regularization for other types of classifiers after having understood those for logistic regression.

My takeaway: if you can avoid adding risk to your systems by using more complicated models, you should.



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