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by darsnack 2582 days ago
You’re right, but that is the motivation for the blog post. Learning is a form of fitting that performs better in practice than the curve fitting mentioned in the blog post when the required fit is nonlinear and/or high dimensional. The author is making the point that if the model is simple, since learning is just a form of fitting, why not directly apply standard curve fitting techniques?