NFL Summary

[Lev Goldfarb]

On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Michael Perrone wrote:

> NFL in a Nutshell:
> ------------------
>    If you make no assumptions about the target function 

     [specifically, about the axiomatic structure of the sample space 
      and the inductive generalization, i.e. which ones are the most 
                                               general for the purpose]
                                         

Strangely as it may sound at first, try to inductively learn the subgroup
of some large group with the group structure completely hidden. No
statistics will reveal the underlying group structure. 

Objects in the universe do have structure, especially when they have to 
be represented, as we have learned from the data types in computer science:
TO REPRESENT AN OBJECT IS TO MAKE SOME ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE OPERATIONS 
RELATED TO ITS MANIPULATION.

Cheers,
         Lev Goldfarb