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Re:N-Shot Learning: Learning More with Less Data by skybrian on Saturday August 03, 2019 @02:37PM (#20601894)
Like many memes, it's vivid for no good reason. The only relationship in common is that A depends on B. Everything else about it is misleading.

Data is not fuel, let alone a fossil fuel. It doesn't provide energy and doesn't get used up.

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Re:N-Shot Learning: Learning More with Less Data by hirundo on Saturday August 03, 2019 @03:39PM (#20602220)
> It doesn't provide energy

Training a model with data reduces entropy in the model. Isn't a local increase in energy a decrease in entropy?

> ... and doesn't get used up.

With respect to the model, that data was useful before training and not useful after training. Its entropy lowering potential is decreased.

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Re:N-Shot Learning: Learning More with Less Data by nkozyra on Sunday August 04, 2019 @07:28AM (#20605820)
Fuel is used as the metaphor here in the respective mechanisms.
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