Full Idea
In the era of big data, the idea of devising simple models that extrapolate beyond a sample is no more. Instead machine learning generates direct fit models that mould themselves to the contours of any large data set.
Gist of Idea
With big data, models no longer extrapolate from a sample, but mould onto the given data
Source
Mazviita Chirimuuta (The Brain Abstracted [2024], 8.3.1)
A Reaction
Illuminating. It implies that the earlier models had an explanatory motivation which is now disappearing. She says the new models no longer offer any understanding. The whole of our reality is becoming statistical? Share-dealing pioneered this.
Book Reference
Mazviita Chirimuuta: 'The Brain Abstracted' [MIT 2024], p.228