exercise 1, ballpark rule?

[Dorian]

The homework exercises usually teach one some lesson. Is exercise 1 an illustration of the ballpark rule about the VC dimension and the number of training examples?

[yaser]

Originally Posted by Dorian

The homework exercises usually teach one some lesson. Is exercise 1 an illustration of the ballpark rule about the VC dimension and the number of training examples?

Sometimes analytic formulas are better understood when you substitute concrete numerical values to get a feel for what they are saying in practical terms, so this can be considered the lesson here.

[Dorian]

Thanks! Btw, the homework in this course is great and I learned from it both when I solved it and when I did wrong