Know Thy Distance

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Distance measures (or metrics if we want to be strict about it) are very important in the field of machine learning. They are utilised both in supervised and unsupervised algorithms. The mastery over distance measures allows machine learning scientists to create better models and novel solutions. Take the counterfactuals for example which are defined as ‘what-if’ instances that yield different outputs. By using distance measures, we can quantify how easy…