Poem Number Seventeen on Representer Theorem, or The New Simplicity of Existence

James Bowden

People used to think that existence was arbitrarily complex: that given an infinitely large state-space, infinitely many actions and decisions, one couldn’t hope to discern the meaning of it all, much less optimize anything.
Turns out they were wrong. Eat, pray, love it is. That, and a lobotomy.

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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 “Representer Theorem”, an important result in machine learning (particularly kernels).