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Good! This article is about the NFL for machine learning (Wolpert), and also mentions NFL for optimisation (Wolpert and Macready). My recent paper [1] is about
by jmmcd 7y ago
Good! This article is about the NFL for machine learning (Wolpert), and also mentions NFL for optimisation (Wolpert and Macready). My recent paper [1] is about NFL for optimisation and mentions NFL for ML. The overall message is the same: most people misunderstand it, and you probably shouldn't cite it. And the anthropic principle is a sufficient assumption for this.
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03280 https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03280
- yters 7y agoIf the NFL doesn't apply in the real world, then where is the one algorithm to rule them all?
- jmmcd 7y agoThere probably isn't one! But as argued in the paper, our reasons for thinking so are not based on NFL.
- eli_gottlieb 7y agoGLORIOUS VARIATIONAL BAYES