[FRIAM] New ways of understanding the world

[Steve Smith]

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/
>
> -J.
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