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Brains may win over brawn, but the problem is that brains don't generalize. It requires bespoke creative mathematical work. In that sense, the brute force met
by nautilus12 6y ago
Brains may win over brawn, but the problem is that brains don't generalize. It requires bespoke creative mathematical work. In that sense, the brute force method while slower has an advantage in that it could theoretically be derived more easily (from another algorithm for example or by a general intelligence system). Direct analytical results are always faster and more accurate than numerical results, but numerical results are more reliably attained.
- chenglou 6y agoTurns out, we end up evolving said general intelligence system into doing bespoke creative work, and it slows down the compilation time by around as much as it takes a human to think up the analytical solution =P Then we end up with a tunable knob to speed up compilation. But then this more or less reduces to coding up either method depending on the situation, aka what we began with!
- nautilus12 6y agoValid point! I think you are right about this