There's a big difference between data-efficiency and information-efficiency. We could make considerable progress on the former without even starting to approach the latter -- and never realize our fundamental mistake.
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Abstraction is the golden path to information efficiency. But all kinds of hacks can get you data efficiency.
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The difference between data & information: - Data is plentiful & noisy, the large majority of data is not information - Information is what makes data useful - We are bad at extracting info from data. We only manage to distill & use a small fraction of what is really available
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Working on "data efficiency" typically means finding new hacks to increase the amount of information we can extract from the same data. But "information efficiency" is an entirely unrelated concept: how to efficiently and effectively make use of information
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Interesting point that applies in many areas of computer science and software engineering. RT
@fchollet: Abstraction is the golden path to information efficiency. But all kinds of hacks can get you data efficiency.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Very interesting observation. Can you elaborate more on some implications of this? Thx
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