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aktuel | 4 months ago

If someone discovers anything, it does not change anything if someone else could have discovered it theoretically as well?

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epistasis|4 months ago

If a simple majority classifier has the same performance as a fancy model with 58 layers of transformers, and you use your fancy model instead of the majority classifier, is it the model that's doing the discovery or is it the operator that choose to look in a particular place?

aktuel|4 months ago

I am all for crediting humans and I don't particularly fancy all the anthropomorphising myself. However rubbing it in now feels similarly pointless as suggesting the US should switch to metric.