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What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models | Stephen Wolfram | August 22, 2024 (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
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[–] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

Interesting, it reminds me of Ptolemy adding more and more epicycles to explain observations, instead of considering that his model was wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle#The_number_of_epicycles