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tl;dr "Classical" (natural) scientist: "X is only understood once I found first principles that x can be reduced to." "Modern" scientist: "X might be so compli
by rooundio 10y ago
tl;dr
"Classical" (natural) scientist: "X is only understood once I found first principles that x can be reduced to."
"Modern" scientist: "X might be so complicated that there are no first principles that x can be reduced to. Rather, finding a neural network that can do x is the best I can do, and it explains why x can be done."
- mcguire 10y agoSee also * Statistical mechanics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_mechanics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_mechanics
- foldr 10y agoI think you should delete the "first" in both cases. Chomsky merely wants a principled model. He's not making any pretense that we're anywhere close to understanding language at a fundamental level. Norvig isn't really interested in principled models at all.