[whyuselearning]

Why use learning when you can fit?

http://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2019/05/why-use-learn...

[RMarcus]

We produced a detailed comparison of such "fitting" and "learning" techniques, available here: https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol14/p1-marcus.pdf

(Thomas Neumann, one of authors of the blog post, is a co-author of the linked paper)