In this famous clip from his even more famous TV program Cosmos, Carl Sagan explains the fourth dimension of space-time, starting with another popular science story: Edwin A. Abbott’s Flatland
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What your favorite ML model says about you:
XGBoost: the ultimate pragmatist. You reject grand notions of the future and wish to live life in the present
LightGBM: you dislike the idea of categories dominated by brand names, like Kleenex
ResNet: you think society peaked in the 1970s and we've just been going downhill ever since
BERT: you distrust things that are "too complex". Why do we need more data than books and Wikipedia?
GPT-J: you believe Guerrilla Radio is the best song ever released
GPT-4: you have a conservative bent. You believe that we should find things that have worked in the past and stick to them
GCN: you're a perfectionist that believes that if everyone in traffic would start driving when the light turns green, society would thrive
RNN: you still use emacs, because you don't see anything compelling about modern IDEs
Linear regression: you believe anything is possible, and that if you work hard enough, you can accomplish it, one straight-line step at a time