Arguably, intelligence is not about learning the latent manifold of some data, it is about taking control of the process that generated it
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The human mind has this remarkable property of filtering out the massive fraction of its input that is irrelevant to what it can control
Learning doesn't just mean compressing data; it's mainly about *discarding* data. This requires a supervision signal. Control is that signal
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I discard most of the news about politics these days.
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discarding != forgetting. Thinkers have been hacking on that one for some time: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Memory-Frances-Yates/dp/0226950018 … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious …
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natural learning is more feature selection than feature extraction?what if dimensionality reduction is only 1 component of natural learning?
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discarding is compression, lossy compression :) also lrning is not abt compression, it's abt *improving* compression, ie 1st derivative ;)
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i thought that detail important, i see many folks miss that pt & counter "just cos you compress data doesn't mean you've learnt", correct...
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Control isn't the only signal though, intention, desire, fear (for example) are all signals which filter incoming data
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Hi Sonal, can you DM me your email or how best to reach you please?
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