On: Applied Machine Learning Is a Meritocracy

[robotresearcher]

Yes there is an active literature on this. The extreme is called ‘one-shot learning’, which means what you’d guess.

[taeric → robotresearcher]

I know it is a thing. My question is if there is actual money/progress being made there. Hence my comparing it to alchemy. A widespread practice that generally did not produce any results in what they were attempting.