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The model is never the reality.
by Biologist123 3y ago
The model is never the reality.
- godelski 3y agoThis is often stated but I think often it is forgotten what is a model. It's not just "the algorithm." The metric is a model (the Wasserstein distance between norm layers of a discriminator is not image quality. Entropy isn't language). The data is a model (scraping all the internet isn't human language nor thoughts). It's important to always remember that these things too are models. Often proxies for things that are intractable. They are fine to use, but not fine to forget that they are not perfectly aligned. They are maps and to use another clique, the map is not the territory (no matter how detailed that map is).
- raybb 3y agoBut some are useful https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong