Neural Network Learning Theoretical Foundations. Foundations of Machine Learning. Foundations of Machine Learning fills the need for a general textbook that also offers theoretical details and an emphasis on proofs.
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Acclaimed by the media as the future of work, it is said to be part of any significant tech investment in recent months, in a world where ev. An Introduction to Machine Learning pdf Springer. Sometimes even more worryingly the concepts may have been independently considered in two fields and while they conceptually discuss the same issues they may use entirely different vocabularies to describe this same concept.
This occurs even amongst comparatively closely related fields of study like electrical and mechanical engineering. A particular example is that of control theory that spans these two fields and for various historical reasons have taken curious diverging paths at times.
That is not to say that the connections don't exist but the answers that make these questions interesting are not easy to come by as the concepts in each field can take significant study within the respective fields to even master and truly appreciate thus limiting the time available for experts from either field to really be able to discover the ideas from fields outside of their own even if there is considerable overlap never mind to meaningfully translate between the vocabularies to engage with those outside their field.
I can't claim to be an expert in any of these specific proofs but I have to say there seems at least to me an intuitive sense in which this connection is unavoidable. They seem to point to some significant limits to what can and cannot be known and what it even means to know anything at all.
Is the connection sometimes maybe overhyped and sensationalized a little by certain groups? Again I think the answer is yes but I think the resultant hesitancy in fields outside of those where these proofs first originated to investigate their consequences on their own fields is also a mistake as these are extremely significant and rigorous findings. If highly simplified and formal systems are plagued with inherent contradictions, and computational limits then it does not bode well for larger more complex systems systems of knowledge.
Sometimes practitioners unfamiliar with these proofs defend against this issue when first exposed to these ideas by making claims that these theoretical shortcomings do not translate to any limitations in practice but I would say that at the least computer science strongly refutes this proposition as the implications of the halting problem and other computability problems are quickly and trivially practical not least to massive economic consequence.
As for how these ideas have been addressed within economics I think there does feel like there are some similarities between the class of proofs previously listed and the Mises-Hayek economic calculation problem though I'm not familiar with any rigorous attempts to connect these ideas despite their passing similarities which as I initially mentioned seems related to the the difficulties encountered in sharing knowledge across domains.
I would therefore say that any attempt to reject the impact of this class of proofs on other fields is horribly misguided and smacks of significant doses of ignorance, but this must be weighed against the reality that in many practical fields the ability to make positive progress is not impeded by their applicability. Not knowing and stated more strongly maybe never actually being able to know does not mean that significant value and progress cannot be achieved.
After all, we aren't comparing the correctness and consistency of our knowledge systems to some system created by some perfect oracle somewhere but merely to those created by other humans similarly limited by the implications of these theories. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Why does economics escape Godel's theorems? Ask Question. Asked 4 months ago. Active 3 months ago. Viewed 6k times. If you look at Godel's incompleteness theorem Am I making sense here? Improve this question. Daniel Walker 2 2 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Guest Guest 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Varoufakis's critique has nothing to do with theorem.
As far as I can tell. Then you proceed to asking three seperate questions, some of which seem ill-defined. I like the basic idea of your question, but it seems like you have some strong misconceptions that lead to a strange formulation. See also VARulle's answer. Its challenge is to model how real-world economic works, not whether a platonic model can be complete and consistent. Show 4 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer.
Daniel Walker Daniel Walker 2 2 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. This is a valid argument, which happens to be completely uninteresting from an economic perspective. Add a comment. AnoE AnoE 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges.
And attempts to say "Rice's Theorem is only theoretical" Many of the fun things that Rice's Theorem says are impossible turn out to be impractical as well. Thanks for bringing that up. Proofs are still useful in economics and all empirical sciences because you still need to know whether the model is really what you meant: Did you divide by zero somewhere? All one has to do to escape the GIT is accept the notion that propositions can be true without being provable, and I doubt that any economist would seriously claim that all--or even most--true economic propositions could be proven.
Here are some videos relating to our lecture. This week we study data streaming algorithms. Again I listed some videos that you can have a look before the lecture. In the coming lecture, we will discuss three topics: 1 P vs. We assume that you know basic definitions about P and NP. If you are curious about the P vs. NP question, here is a wonderful lecture by Prof. We created a mailing list for our course. We will discuss one topic per lecture.
Instead of giving all proof details, we explain the intuitions and importance of these results, discuss the techniques used in their analysis, and connections to other areas in computer science.
We encourage students to choose selected topics for further reading. You can find lecture notes, problem sets, and course announcements there. There is no textbook for the course. We cover a diverse amount of material and no single book covers everything addressed in the course. We will put slides and lecture notes online, and these materials are good starting points to digest every lecture.
We will give you some articles for each topic. Since we can only spend two hours discussing each topic or subarea, many details will be omitted. Hence we highly recommend you to read more references after class in order to obtain a deep understanding of these topics.
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