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by bashinator 2490 days ago
What is a "decision boundary?" What does it mean to represent data as a point in space? Why would the number of dimensions of space matter? How does any of that relate to AI or machine learning?
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Those details matter a lot, you're right. However, pictures help a lot imho, and I bet my parents could get the jist of this:

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-968b9df8608f76d41586a0...

Is that teaching a computer to distinguish between males and females based on height and weight?
More or less, yes.