cousin_it comments on Hardened Problems Make Brittle Models - Less Wrong

51 Post author: cousin_it 06 May 2009 06:31PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 07 May 2009 12:40:13AM *  4 points [-]

Agree completely. I wasn't advocating ignorance or promoting complex models over simple ones a priori. Only well-fitting and robust simple models over poorly fitting and brittle ones.