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I think it's blurring the line between modelling and simulation. You can find an efficient route down a hillside by pouring water down it, or a line of least re
by ppod 8y ago
I think it's blurring the line between modelling and simulation. You can find an efficient route down a hillside by pouring water down it, or a line of least resistance through a system by passing a current through it. Is the system learning a numerical solution, or performing one? I think this is like building a model of a system that is much closer to the territory than the map compared to a normal model, but still easier to work with than the territory.
- aeorgnoieang 8y ago> Is the system learning a numerical solution, or performing one? Is there a real difference? Any learning must be, fundamentally, an algorithm, so learning is performing.
- ppod 8y agoThis is a deep topic but one good treatment of is in the works of David Deutsch: https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dgerman/hector/deutsch.pdf https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dgerman/hector/deutsch.pdf