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Reword to avoid that people draw wrong conclusions#12095

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Reword to avoid that people draw wrong conclusions#12095
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@kno10 kno10 commented Sep 17, 2018

  1. OPTICS is not "equivalent" to DBSCAN (then we would not need it), just related / more general / enhanced.
  2. OPTICS is not (and cannot) be more scalable than DBSCAN; the problem is the current sklearn implementation of DBSCAN that needs a lot of memory (and this could change).

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1. OPTICS is not "equivalent" to DBSCAN (then we would not need it), just related / more general / enhanced.
2. OPTICS is not (and cannot) be more scalable than DBSCAN; the problem is the current sklearn implementation of DBSCAN that needs a lot of memory (and this could change).
@jnothman jnothman merged commit daaa2a5 into scikit-learn:master Sep 17, 2018
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