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Reminds me of the quote by V. N. Vapnik: "One should solve the problem directly and never solve a more general problem as an intermediate step."

• davesuperman 10y ago
  Absolutely love this! I'd love it if you left this as a comment so I can come back to it.
• olewhalehunter 10y ago
  That quote would make sense if the quoted had say, isolated the medicinal properties of penicillin, but Vapnik invented Support Vector Machines which have solved generalized cases of classification but directly solved 0 problems (if you say something like running an OCR algo on documents whose purpose remain unamed that were: translated from human speech or thought, printed on paper, then scanned; is solving a problem directly I question your ability to speak of general and direct problem solving any further).
  • gridspy 10y ago
    Perhaps Vapnik was speaking from experience when he said that "generalized problems suck."
  • tnecniv 10y ago
    Generality is relative.