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		vincentmarle on May 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learning to think critically about machine learnin... When you have a complex system that produces nth-order effects, then the only approach is to treat it as empirical phenomena (aka black box magic), and that is what most research papers in this field do.

throwawaygh on May 2, 2022 [–]

In the 80s and 90s it was really common to anthropomorphize spaghetti code.

Just because something is difficult to analyze doesn't mean it has limitless power.

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