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    1. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 26

      Maybe this is grasping at straws, but it’s fascinating how close evolutionary processes of different systems mirror each other. (1/n)

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      Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 26

      Of course, In biology you have genetic mutations that survive or don’t (yes I’m oversimplifying). In economics new ideas start as new companies and survive or don’t. What’s fascinating is how closely machine learning (especially deep learning) mirrors that same process (2/n)

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        2. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 26

          In computing most search algorithms (take Djykstra’s as an example) are basically “rapid guess and check.” Machine learning and AI are essentially “guess and check” done incredibly quickly at a huge scale with beefed up computer hardware (3/n)

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        3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 26

          So here’s my unifying theory of life: Systems are so complex that no one can predict anything, so basically we should try as many things as we possibly can and discard the losers as quickly as we can, knowing that learning takes so long we’ll all probably die first (4/n)

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        2. Joel Grus‏ @joelgrus May 26
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          THIS IS DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO BECOMING A BAD ANALOGY QUIT WHILE YOU'RE AHEAD 😇 (there are people applying evolutionary ideas to machine learning, but IMO the common gradient-descent approaches are not particularly analogous to evolution, they're more analogous to *breeding*)

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        3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 26
          Replying to @joelgrus

          Oh we crossed over the realm of bad analogy minutes ago. There’s no going back now.

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        2. Charlie Ward‏ @charlierward May 28
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          I think there are parallels in every complex system - the ability for individual notes to die out (species in an ecosystem) / go bankrupt (businesses in an economy) renders the larger system more resilient. (Might have stolen this from Antifragile).

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        3. Charlie Ward‏ @charlierward May 28
          Replying to @charlierward @AustenAllred

          With this line of thinking, governments should’ve let the banks die after the crash for long term benefit. But if that nuked the economy short term, they’d be voted out. So even if they though this way, it may have been too risky for preserving their power.

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        4. Charlie Ward‏ @charlierward May 28
          Replying to @charlierward @AustenAllred

          *thought

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