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It's funny because that's perfectly backwards. :) Machine learning is a model of this thing we observe in ourselves. Don't mistake a picture of a pipe for the
by jfarmer 14y ago
It's funny because that's perfectly backwards. :)
Machine learning is a model of this thing we observe in ourselves. Don't mistake a picture of a pipe for the pipe itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)
- LukeShu 14y agoI'm not sure what your point is. What is the image, and what is the actual object?
- jfarmer 14y agoI was replying to wting, but HN doesn't let me reply to a reply by the same author as a way to combat back-and-forth style arguments, I guess. He said that experts doing that is "trained pattern matching gained through experience, i.e. machine learning." But that's backwards: machine learning in this style is a model of something we observe in ourselves. The thing that's in us is the pipe, the machine learning algorithm is the picture.
- pooriaazimi 14y agoYou have to either wait a few more minutes till the "reply" link appears, or simply click on "link" link(!) and write your reply there.
- jfarmer 14y agoThanks! I've been an HN member for ~5 years and I didn't know this. :D