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86. Learning as information compression
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Machine Learning Is a Kind of Information Compression
I feel like learning is a kind of information compression I mean consider that your head is quite small right but you actually you try to understand the universe which is big. There's a lot of information in the universe so you got to like really crush it really tight if you're gonna get any good representation of the universe. abstraction allows for generalization becauseYou have an abstract idea of a concept then it allows you to generalize as well. You can see the deep structure that connects different things and you can go oh well this is an example of that at a deep level this is an examples of this abstract concept that I have. It's more powerful because it's abstracting it can generalize
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