shawn_leong
Machine Learning in Elixir: Plot of given `profits` function does not match the expected plot (B1.0, Chapter 3, Page 65)
Hey @seanmor5,
The function given in the book
defn profits(trees) do
trees
|> Nx.pow(4)
|> Nx.negate()
|> Nx.add(Nx.multiply(2, Nx.pow(trees, 3)))
|> Nx.add(Nx.pow(trees, 2))
end
Results in the following plot which doesn’t match the expected plot in the book:
The accompanying Livebooks provides the following code to give the expected plot:
defn profits(trees) do
-((trees - 1) ** 4) + trees ** 3 + trees ** 2
end
So my guess is that there is an error in the conversion to Nx functions.
Instead, the correct translation of the Livebook function should be as follows:
defn profits(trees) do
trees
|> Nx.subtract(1)
|> Nx.pow(4)
|> Nx.negate()
|> Nx.add(Nx.pow(trees, 3))
|> Nx.add(Nx.pow(trees, 2))
end
- Adds the missing
Nx.subtract(1)that the book doesn’t have - Removes the unnecessary doubling of the cube in
Nx.add(Nx.multiply(2, Nx.pow(trees,3)))
This gives the correct expected plot
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seanmor5
Author of Genetic Algorithms in Elixir
Thank you for pointing this out! I’ve fixed the issue in the next beta release!
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