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In other words, if you obsess about efficiency, you might be chasing a local optima and making your system more fragile.
by xapata 6y ago
In other words, if you obsess about efficiency, you might be chasing a local optima and making your system more fragile.
- Double_Cast 6y agoI tend to frame this in terms of the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem. It's a trade-off between exploration vs exploitation. It's often impossible to predict beforehand which strategy is optimal for a given environment. Which, I suspect, is why progressive temperments and conservative temperments coexist.
- WindyLakeReturn 6y agoYes, but even worse it will be a local optima of the efficiency function you've chosen and people often choose very poor efficiency functions that ignore second order and higher effects.