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 <[email protected]> Date:
11/30/20 21:55 (GMT+01:00) To: [email protected] 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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