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Because of challenges such as the curse of dimensionality, machine-learning practitioners need to smooth their modeling process and make it suitable for their prediction tasks.
Tim Scarfe · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“we've got the curse of dimensionality and so on. So we have to put some kind of, I mean, we're amortizing this process, and we have to smooth it and make it amenable to the types of prediction that we're doing.”Play from 17:42Report a misattribution
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