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by madcaptenor 3145 days ago
If you're going to do logistic regression, at least call it a single-layer neural network with a sigmoid activation function.
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So true. I have had to do this.

I had a pretty good regression model but it was not taken seriously. So I wrote it using "a neural network in TensorFlow" and the next thing you know the whole company is asking me how it works and what it does.

This feels so dirty, but these kinds of tricks work. Your stakeholders get to participate in the titillating fiction that they are on the bleeding edge of technology, and you get to deploy a scalable, explainable, and (hopefully) high-performing solution. That's 95% of a win.
I'm totally "borrowing" that for later use.