[FRIAM] New ways of understanding the world

[Jochen Fromm]

The success of Google's deep learning program in predicting protein folding is impressive. Maybe that is what he meant.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4-J.
-------- Original message --------From: Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> Date: 11/30/20  21:55  (GMT+01:00) To: friam at redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] New ways of understanding the world 
    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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