sixes_and_sevens comments on Open thread, Nov. 17 - Nov. 23, 2014 - Less Wrong

4 Post author: MrMind 17 November 2014 08:25AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (322)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 17 November 2014 04:27:37PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure these are quite the same "rules and tips". There's still a rationale behind model assumptions that an expert could explain, even if that rationale is "this is essentially arbitrary, but in practice we find it works quite well".