> Why are you dubious? Where do your objections come from?
That the results the machine learning techniques provide are still nondeterministic.
Meaning that they are, in terms of identifying other local minima that satisfy the constraints, as good as a guess.
If the provided solution also came with a method of systemic modification to derive all other solutions that satisfy the constraints, then I would be satisfied.
Without that you are unable to say with certainty that your local minima is correct even if nature fails to adhere to the lowest energy assumption.
> However, nature isn't magic and can't magically solve global optimisation problems.
I wonder sometimes. Let’s remember, this is an open question after all.
I have a long standing hypothesis that an algorithmic solution to the global optimization problem is what lends action potentials the appearance, or essence?, of what we mean when we speak of “consciousness”.
But I am a more inclined toward the abstract aspects of the mathematics behind the problem, and leave advocacy for the current techniques
to researchers developing practical solutions with them.
I applaud the people who toiled with X-ray crystallography to build the field to the point that a machine learning technique could be developed.
That the results the machine learning techniques provide are still nondeterministic.
Meaning that they are, in terms of identifying other local minima that satisfy the constraints, as good as a guess.
If the provided solution also came with a method of systemic modification to derive all other solutions that satisfy the constraints, then I would be satisfied.
Without that you are unable to say with certainty that your local minima is correct even if nature fails to adhere to the lowest energy assumption.
> However, nature isn't magic and can't magically solve global optimisation problems.
I wonder sometimes. Let’s remember, this is an open question after all.
I have a long standing hypothesis that an algorithmic solution to the global optimization problem is what lends action potentials the appearance, or essence?, of what we mean when we speak of “consciousness”.
But I am a more inclined toward the abstract aspects of the mathematics behind the problem, and leave advocacy for the current techniques to researchers developing practical solutions with them.
I applaud the people who toiled with X-ray crystallography to build the field to the point that a machine learning technique could be developed.