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by _aavaa_ 1071 days ago
That isn't immediately true, with enough fitting parameters you can capture the effect underlying behaviour without explicitly capturing it, or even without knowing it exists.

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." - John von Neumann [0]

[0]: https://doi.org/10.1119%2F1.3254017