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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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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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*)2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
Oh we crossed over the realm of bad analogy minutes ago. There’s no going back now.
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