Please explain why vals=vals[:k] ? why is it is used and please explain!!
KNN Algorithm python
While using knn we need to consider only k nearest neighbors and thats the reason we have used the slicing for list, [:k] after sorting them, means this will return only the first k elements. After this we will take majority voting from these k examples.
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