• Appropriate_Ant_4629B
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    10 months ago

    We need a name for the fallacy where people call highly nonlinear algorithms with billions of parameters “just statistics”

    Well, thanks to quantum mechanics; pretty much all of existence is probably “just statistics”.

    as if all they’re doing is linear regression.

    Well, practically all interesting statistics are NONlinear regressions. Including ML. And your brain. And physics.