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>What it actually (vaguely) says is “You can’t learn from data without making assumptions”. That's what they taught us it means in our graduate machine learnin
by eli_gottlieb 7y ago
>What it actually (vaguely) says is “You can’t learn from data without making assumptions”.
That's what they taught us it means in our graduate machine learning class. What were people citing it to mean?
- contravariant 7y agoThis is pretty much equivalent to 'you can't learn from random noise', isn't it?
- eli_gottlieb 7y agoIt's a little more like, "If you assume nothing is more complicated or costly than anything else, then any set of examples you see could just as easily be generated adversarially to trick you as not."
- lonelappde 7y agoThat's also what they taught us in casual reading and HN, even before ML when it was a theorem about search algorithms and compression. I don't know where the author got their basis for being contrarian.