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Comment by famouswaffles

>You can't model and predict the weather just by training on the outputs of the weather system (whether it rained today, whether it was cloudy yesterday, and so on). You have to train on the inputs (air currents, warm fronts, etc.)

>You can't model and predict the stock market just by training on the outputs of stock trading decisions (the high today, the low yesterday). You have to train on the inputs (company fundamentals, earnings, market sentiments in the news, etc.)

Says who?

You can model and predict novel protein sequences by training on....protein sequences. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01618-2

You don't need to train on the inputs(casual processes) of anything, that's what training is there to figure out.

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