On 11/29/06, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I defy you to show me *any* black-box method that has predictive power outside the bounds of it's training set. All that the black-box methods are doing is curve-fitting. If you give them enough variables they can brute force solutions through what is effectively case-based/nearest-neighbor reasoning but that is *not* intelligence. You and they can't build upon that.
If you look into the literature of the past 20 years, you will easily find several thousand examples. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
