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Meanwhile, the economy is investing billions of dollars into researching and using neural networks, an almost purely mathematical construct that nobody yet really understands.


They do it because people believe there is an immediate economic advantage: namely, to strangle ordinary people and concentrate all that is worth trading in the hands of the already rich.


You’re changing the subject! There is a really good problem in there.

Why does this stuff work so well, for what classes of problems, and can we say anything about the fundamental energy/accuracy limits of this approach?

I think of it as an engineering problem, but there are mathematical rephrasings of this problem, as Michel Talagrand’s work has shown.

Don’t let the greed/stampede obscure the very interesting technical principles here.




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