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Density estimates are useful for active learning.

Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026

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“So if you're interested in something like active learning, then you also want densities. So I would push back on the fundamental notion that we are not doing inference if we look at uh like normal deep learning.”

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