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"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." - John von Neumann One might argue that the point of s
by bordercases 6y ago
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." - John von Neumann
One might argue that the point of synthetic data is to produce pseudo-random samples, but they are only ever going to reflect the biases of the interpreter and so the critique will still be worth holding for its cautionary significance.
- w_t_payne 6y agoThe point is to be able to control the correlations that you introduce - so you can therefore control what your learning algorithm learns.
- bordercases 6y agoNice in industrial settings, poor in scientific ones.