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Machine-learning practitioners work with finite data samples and may need to interpolate between observed data points.
Tim Scarfe · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026
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“You know, we're machine learning people, we have a finite sample of data,”
“and our purposes might be, you know, at some point, we've got to interpolate between these data points,”Play from 17:33Report a misattribution
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