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by mitmatt 1727 days ago
The first statement may be referring to the Cramer-Rao bound:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cram%C3%A9r%E2%80%93Rao_bound

But it only applies to estimation (like how well a population parameter can be estimated) in certain regimes, and not e.g. expected risk (like how well one can do at prediction), so I’m not sure how it would apply here.