Re: New ways of understanding the world

Posted by gepr on Nov 30, 2020; 9:05pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/New-ways-of-understanding-the-world-tp7599664p7599667.html

I'm fond of the words "degenerate" and "trivial", which allow nearly useless models to be true without being all that meaningful. Such "limit points" close behavior covers and help make the argument that *breaking* a model is more important than validating a model.

On 11/30/20 12:54 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> Or a "model of nothing fit to everything we know: useful or merely wrong?"
>
> On 11/30/20 1:41 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
>> Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired, asks if a computer can find a theory of everything merely by learning from data. Unfortunately most deep learning models are like a black box which delivers good results but is hard to understand. Would a theory of everything be a theory of nothing? It reminds me of Russell Standish's book "theory of nothing".
>> https://www.wired.com/2008/06/pb-theory/


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