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Re:How to fit any dataset with a single parameter by adrianN on Thursday September 30, 2021 @05:10AM (#28704432)
If meat is magical, just build computers out of meat then.
Re:How to fit any dataset with a single parameter by mjburgess on Thursday September 30, 2021 @06:37AM (#28704849)
Sure, I agree.

The issue is the word "computer" means not "device we have made" but "universal turing machine".

Ie., a computer is any system which realises a function from the Naturals to the Naturals.

Physics barely, if at all, has any use whatsoever for those functions. It is a very important point.

Computer scientists (ie., discrete mathematicians) are not the people who are even able to describe, engineer and build whatever is needed for an AI -- if, as I claim, continuous dynamical properties are needed.

(As, for example, they are needed by pretty much every system.)

Re:How to fit any dataset with a single parameter by adrianN on Thursday September 30, 2021 @07:03AM (#28704981)
Computer scientists do study computers that use real numbers, for example it's known that such computers can solve all problems in #P in polynomial time. Many other areas of computer science also use plenty of real analysis.