4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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When data is scarce, introducing substantial inductive bias may be necessary to achieve enough statistical power for reliable inferences.

RJ Hanaki · Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich · 6 Nov 2026

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“Um, so that's like the one and then-- But then there's this like countervailing tendency which is like maybe you could call it the anti-bitter lesson or like the other, the flip side of the bitter lesson where when you're in data poor regimes, for one thing, then you, you have to induce-- introduce a lot of inductive bias to get enough statistical power to make good inferences.”
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