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The essential components of a machine learning system are a way to calculate the difference between its prediction and the training data (known as the loss function) and a way to iteratively improve on it (the optimizer).
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
After that, the worst marksmen were considered the best soldiers; and the very worst of all always got First Prize.” “And how did you decide which was the very worst of all?” “Easily. The best possible shooting is, you know, to hit what is exactly in front of you: so of course the worst possible is to hit what is exactly behind you.”
Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
LEWIS CARROLL
If nothing means anything and nothing follows from anything else, then, as Hannah Arendt warned, everything is possible. Reality is putty to be shaped and molded at will.
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