Poem Number 99927364832 on the No Free Lunch Theorem, or Don’t Bother Trying to Optimize, Overall Nothing Beats Random
James Bowden
It turns out
The Library of Babel
had it right
all along.
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This series of poems was generally inspired in form by June Jordan’s short poem, “Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The New Physicality of Long Distance Love”.
See “The Library of Babel”. See also the No Free Lunch Theorem, an debatably meaningful result in machine learning.
Regarding ad infinitum, (sic) – I don’t think the Library of Babel included italic characters. I mean, think how much worse that’d have made it.