François Chollet on Twitter: "The cognitive fallacy that tech folks seem most likely to fall for is believing a broad & complex problem can be solved with a single, simple universal solution (backed with a couple of cherry-picked examples)"

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1. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 21 Jul 2019
  Simplicity bias can actually be quite useful when designing systems. Just remember the real world is complicated and diverse, and you've only seen a small part of it
  
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1. Kyrilluk‏ @kyrilluk 21 Jul 2019
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  Not just tech. Everyone does that. Scientist do that. Religious people too.
  
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1. alth0u ‏ @alth0u 21 Jul 2019
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  What % of this is because tech VCs fall for it? I know some engineers understand it's more complicated but tell the story that gets the funds for the complicated solution. Tho I'm sure plenty fall in the category you outlined
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1. Abdallah T. Nasir‏ @AbdallahTNasir 21 Jul 2019
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  Especially if that single simple solution is an open source one, they all will say: It is already has been implemented, just use it!
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1. Guillaume Verdon‏ @quantumVerd 21 Jul 2019
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  also the case for theoretical physicists, aiming for a grand unified theory
  
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1. Pere Mayol ‏ @peremayol 21 Jul 2019
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  The very quick evolution of biological cognitive systems only seems feasible considering that all of them grew from a very scalable initial primitive system, that was able to quickly scale from few hundred neurons to a primate forgive system
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1. Dr. M. Tullius "No Mercy for Seditionists" Cicero‏ @TulliusCicero43 21 Jul 2019
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  They're just like analytic philosophers.
  
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1. Alex Vu‏ @robberviet 21 Jul 2019
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  I always thought people just see it as "good enough" and covers like 95% cases. For complex ones, of course not.
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1. Aditya Shaha‏ @dityashaha 21 Jul 2019
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  Doesn't this contradict the Occam's Razor Principle ?
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1. Sri Krishna‏ @skrish_13 22 Jul 2019
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  Physics
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