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> What's outside of the set of computable sets? Human intution can jump. Mechanical deduction must expend energy. Let me give you an example: Dmitri Mendeleev
by eternalban 11y ago
> What's outside of the set of computable sets?
Human intution can jump. Mechanical deduction must expend energy.
Let me give you an example: Dmitri Mendeleev goes to bed, has a dream, and then delivers the periodic table.
Can your machine do that?
- nairboon 11y agoWhere is the jump? There was a lot of computation preceding his dream, how is that different from deduction?
- lordnacho 11y agoThe periodic table is the elements ordered such that common features occur together. You'd think some sort of clustering algorithm would detect this. A line of elements that almost never react with anything. A bunch of things that gain one electron, some that lose one. And so on.
- eternalban 11y agoNote: "must expend energy" How many Joules did Mendeleev expend in his dream? How many Joules will your clustering algorithm require? In fact, how many Joules before a meta-algorithm supervisor decides on exclusively using clustering to solve the problem? > A line of elements ... Indeed. He arrived at the result with incomplete information. Rightly traced and well ordered; what of that? .. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp