> I think some researchers are refusing to accept the idea that machine learning is very much an experimental science today… This is like criticizing the physi

> I think some researchers are refusing to accept the idea that machine learning is very much an experimental science today… This is like criticizing the physicists working on the principles underlying steam engines during the days when people were making empirical advances in building steam engines, but nobody had figured out all the core principles yet. Of course they understand that it’s an empirical science today. That’s exactly why they’re doing the work they’re doing.