this "gonna end up " confused me...
hi, guys

I am learning a MOOC course about Machine Learning. what dose this part

" starts by assuming that you are gonna end up with ..."

mean in this sentence:

"... so here, we see the data that we're gonna wanna cluster. And this algorithm, which is called the k-means algorithm, starts by assuming that you are gonna end up with k clusters." ?

why assume k-means starts by I am gonna end up with k cluster? what does it mean?

thanks for any comment :)

Question

this "gonna end up " confused me...
hi, guys

I am learning a MOOC course about Machine Learning. what dose this part

" starts by assuming that you are gonna end up with ..."

mean in this sentence:

"... so here, we see the data that we're gonna wanna cluster. And this algorithm, which is called the k-means algorithm, starts by assuming that you are gonna end up with k clusters." ?

why assume k-means starts by I am gonna end up with k cluster? what does it mean?

thanks for any comment :)

Answer

From Wiki:
"k-means clustering aims to partition n observations into k clusters in which each observation belongs to the cluster with the nearest mean, serving as a prototype of the cluster."

ref: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-means_clustering)

Answer

I'm not an engineer, but if I've understood the tech talk and what it is that you're confused about, this is how I would explain it:

k = the number of clusters that you want to have after running the algorithm

Answer

Hi Norman. I'm not a programmer so I am not sure of the meaning of the statement. "Gonna end up with" is a colloquial way of saying "going to end up with" which implies the future tense in English that is "will end up with". I'm not sure if this helps

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