Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 9 hours agoWhy are we training AIs on reddit posts instead of Research Papers? We could be saving the world!message-squaremessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down114
arrow-up151arrow-down1message-squareWhy are we training AIs on reddit posts instead of Research Papers? We could be saving the world!Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 9 hours agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-squarehowrar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoWhy does everyone keep calling them Markov chains? They’re missing all the required properties, including the eponymous Markovian property. Wouldn’t it be more correct to call them stochastic processes?
minus-squareTheOubliette@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 hours agoBecause it’s close enough. Turn off beam and redefine your state space and the property holds.
minus-squarehowrar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 hours agoWhy settle for good enough when you have a term that is both actually correct and more widely understood?
Why does everyone keep calling them Markov chains? They’re missing all the required properties, including the eponymous Markovian property. Wouldn’t it be more correct to call them stochastic processes?
Because it’s close enough. Turn off beam and redefine your state space and the property holds.
Why settle for good enough when you have a term that is both actually correct and more widely understood?
What term is that?
Stochastic process