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No Free Lunch – Lecture Notes
Consider this sequence: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, …– what comes next?
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences also has (amongst others):
Series A061166: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 72, 332, 1139, … ht [...] a priori distinctions between learning algorithms. Neural Computation . 8, 7 (Oct. 1996), 1341–1390. DOI: 10.1162/neco.1996.8.7.1341
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Wolpert, D.H. and Macready, W.G. 1997. No free lunch theorems [...] https://oeis.org/A061166
Series A000040: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, … https://oeis.org/A000040
Without assumptions, any series and hence number is equally likely!
➜ we need to make assumptions …