"In this sense you are totally correct - bayes is simpler." That's exactly the sense I referring to and similarly the error correction terms (i/o) in backprop.

"In this sense you are totally correct - bayes is simpler." That's exactly the sense I referring to and similarly the error correction terms (i/o) in backprop. But I mis-read the original question: Either "works" just fine - it's just that there seems to be a movement away from NN and toward Bayes. That's what I was answering even as it's tough to judge that right now. Still, NN seemed much hotter 10 years ago in the literature. Where's Google Trends for academic papers?