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Question 7

Put them on one scale

unit for hours studied put everything on 0–1
0 steps
Press [One step].
What to take away
Divide every column by the top of a range you decided in advance, so that all of them land between 0 and 1 — this is called normalization. Hours studied is set as 0 to 10 hours, so we divide by 10 (a person chose that range. The real maximums among the 40 are 9 hours studied and 10.5 hours slept, so nothing reaches 1). Once the rulers match, the units disappear. 4.5 ÷ 10 and 270 ÷ 600 both give the same 0.45. Matching up the rulers is a job for a person.
Where this pays off
When training goes nowhere, suspect things in this order: (a) the size of the inputs, (b) the step size, (c) how the data is split.