Glen writes:
< Data driven modeling takes a different approach. It _attempts_ to derive
models *directly* from the biology (as directly as possible, anyway), rather
than going through us (obviously fallible) human abstraction machines. Machine
learning is an attempt at this. Teh *-omics are attempts at this. Etc. And
while it's (currently) true that such modeling efforts remain, in general, less
efficient and effective at building useful models, they are making some
progress. E.g.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180712/Study-suggests-database-analysis-better-predicts-toxicity-of-chemicals-than-animal-testing.aspx
>
This reminds me of how some say that dogs don't have shame or dogs don't love
you, etc. that the head-hanging is just an empty learned behavior to get along
with humans.
Who says humans are any different?
Marcus
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