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nurettinyesterday at 5:15 AM1 replyview on HN

The problem with symbolic regression is ln(y) is undefined at 0, so you can't freely generate expressions with it. We need to guard it with something like ln(1+y*y) or ln(1+|y|) or return undefined.


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xigoiyesterday at 4:11 PM

The article uses extended arithmetic where ln(0) = -∞.