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Obviously not the type of statistical model I was referring to.
by foobarqux 10y ago
Obviously not the type of statistical model I was referring to.
- mcguire 10y agoObviously? Physics went through this same argument with thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Predictive, statistical models pretty much won. And then along came quantum mechanics---there's nothing descriptive there at all.
- foobarqux 10y agoWe were discussing machine learning not models which contain statistical properties. And both statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics are descriptive, what they are not is determinate.