News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why wasn't the steam engine invented earlier? Part II. Parent comment

Re:Why wasn't the steam engine invented earlier? Part II by bravura on Friday July 15, 2022 @07:47AM (#32107115)
Also, a lot of empirical progress in ML didn't happen until people stopped worrying about explainability and theoretical guarantees. Remember when NNs were unfashionable?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why wasn't the steam engine invented earlier? Part II by dredmorbius on Friday July 15, 2022 @02:35PM (#32111371)
Self-imposed unnecessary limitations are a frequent inhibitor of technical progress.

Though I've had my concerns for what the growth in solution-without-explanation (or understanding) that ML is generating.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why wasn't the steam engine invented earlier? Part II by NateEag on Friday July 15, 2022 @04:09PM (#32112224)
my impression is that mostly NNs made progress when compute got really cheap.
[ Parent | on HN ]