Tensorflow's wording of loss is actually cost?

Course Q&A Machine Learning Specialization Advanced Learning Algorithms
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Dear all,

is it true that Tensorflow’s wording of loss is actually the cost?

Andrew mentioned it and I need a confirmation again that Tensorflow actually refers to the cost function if they speak of loss.

Thanks for clarification!

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Hi @Daniel_Blossey ,

Andrew refers loss as per single example, and cost for the all the examples.

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Dear @Kic,

thanks for your quick answer but this is not what I mean. I am referring to the C2_W2_Assignment, section “Loss (cost)”. I can read here " Tensorflow refers to the cost as loss".

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In general, Loss and Cost describe the same concept.

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Hi @Daniel_Blossey,

I think so. I don’t remember Tensorflow uses “cost” anywhere but they use “loss” everywhere.

Cheers,
Raymond

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Thanks @TMosh and @rmwkwok !