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by godelski 1134 days ago
> The heart of the bitter lesson is "don't try to codify "insight" into the process".

This is exactly right and what a lot of people get wrong. Sutton isn't saying that you can't have constraints in your network either. He also isn't saying "no need to learn math", which is a far too common interpretation I've seen. It isn't just data and scale, algorithms are critical too. Just don't force aspects like Gabor filters, symmetry, etc. This doesn't mean works like geometric deep learning are dead (alpha fold even uses it!). The reason to not force insights is because they sometimes don't hold in high dimensions and sometimes our assumptions are wrong. It can also limit the path to reach the optimal/desired solution even if the optimal solution has those constraints. But I am specifically saying "force" because we can hint and we are always using some human insight.