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John von Neumann and Enrico Fermi on the trouble with using four parameters to fit your data, as relayed by Freeman Dyson

I think of this story & smile whenever I hear about a 17 zillion parameter neural net, & wonder what they would have said https://t.co/pxhY45SnOB pic.twitter.com/DhCsY8fAz6

— Michael Nielsen (@michael_nielsen) January 17, 2023