Deep Learning and Mathematical Intuition: A Review of (Davies et al. 2021) · HackerPapers discussions

Deep Learning and Mathematical Intuition: A Review of (Davies et al. 2021) — mentioned by fault1

Sat, 11 Dec 2021 19:10:50 GMT

I thought this critical paper about the original paper (and maybe rather the news or marketing about the original paper) was fair and helps put things into perspective: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04324 So a relatively simple neural net finds statistical regularity. Personally I agree that it probably could have been done with ordinary statistics. I'm surprised at how viral this story has become.

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Deep Learning and Mathematical Intuition: A Review of (Davies et al. 2021) — mentioned by agnosticmantis

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 23:02:03 GMT

See [0] for a critical review of (the popularization of) this paper. As usual, there’s something real here but it’s way overhyped because everyone involved benefits from over-playing the role of deep learning here. [0:https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04324] Edit: the critical review isn’t about the technical content of the paper per se, but rather the hyped news around it.

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