The best first step towards building a complex end-to-end system is to build a basic end-to-end system -- not to build a submodule of what you think the complex system should look like
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This is also how babies learn, of course: the first step towards performing an advanced interaction with a thing is to perform a much simpler (potentially very different) interaction with the thing, not to master the first part of the complex interaction
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I wonder if this is because you can only get gradient with an end-to-end system - it’s hard to learn more complex behavior if you only have a submodule that doesn’t do the final task, and thus can’t get feedback on performance.
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Gradient is not a good metaphor because we're not talking about continuous optimization at all. But it is indeed about information discovery and grounding the meaning of the task
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Forcing the ends closer together is also worth a go. Babies bang bricks (aka heads) together before assembly - or discovering square pegs and round holes aren't a good fit.
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