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AI has a ton of impossibility results. the "no free lunch theorems" are probably the best known. people now actively think in terms of designing assumptions, pr
by currymj 7y ago
AI has a ton of impossibility results. the "no free lunch theorems" are probably the best known. people now actively think in terms of designing assumptions, priors, or inductive biases to make their systems work better on the data they actually care about, because there's typically no solution that is always superior without tradeoffs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_in_search_and_optimization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_in_search_and_op...