> This kind of philosophy will cause future generations to see machine learning as something worse than a fad Why do you think so ? Parameters are a piece of f

> This kind of philosophy will cause future generations to see machine learning as something worse than a fad Why do you think so ? Parameters are a piece of fiction, no one has actually seen them. Sometimes they are an useful piece of fiction, but not a very falsifiable notion. Prediction accuracy, well, that I can definitely measure without resorting to pieces of fiction that are epistemologically unknowable.