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Ask Feynman why magnets works... And he'll say no one knows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA It's the s
by sdenton4 3y ago
Ask Feynman why magnets works... And he'll say no one knows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA
It's the same in ML. Good predictions do come from real ideas about how the systems work - ideas in information theory, entropy, cognitive science, statistical mechanics and so on - formulated in a context of our existing understanding and prior results. That's science.
- javajosh 3y agoFeynman was a genius. It takes a genius to say something like that, and it's surprising how many "scientists" are upset by statements like that, because they are so proud of their hard-won capabilities in modelling. Their curl and divergence operators, their Maxwell's equations... they forget that the map is not the terrain, and the universe is, at it's root, irreducibly mysterious, and the fact that we understand anything about it at all is gobsmacking.
- optimalsolver 3y ago>irreducibly What are you basing that on?