I’ve been thinking lots about thingspace cluster stuff the past few days, and I remembered a thought I had a while back:
In actual reality, network 2 is not just easier to deal with, more efficient, etc, but would actually be more likely to reflect the actual underlying reality.
I mean, consider the pattern of correlations, the thingspace clusters represented in network 1. Generally such correlations don’t just pop up out of nowhere, right? Correlation is not the same thing as causation, but it does at least suggest that some sort of causation link is present (most likely common cause in a case like this, right?)
In this sort of case, I’d think “There’s probably some sort of actual physical process that produces bleggs, and some other process that produces rubes. That is, some process that produces things that have a high probability of being blue, egg shaped, etc etc etc… and similar for red cube shaped etc etc… Possibly distinct geological processes?”
So in that sense, the naive bayes network, with the implicit “but is it ACTUALLY a blegg?” style question would seem to reflect something legitimate, not just a name for the cluster. Specifically, such a question would translate to something like “which of, say, two distinct physical processes produced this?”
I’ve been thinking lots about thingspace cluster stuff the past few days, and I remembered a thought I had a while back:
In actual reality, network 2 is not just easier to deal with, more efficient, etc, but would actually be more likely to reflect the actual underlying reality.
I mean, consider the pattern of correlations, the thingspace clusters represented in network 1. Generally such correlations don’t just pop up out of nowhere, right? Correlation is not the same thing as causation, but it does at least suggest that some sort of causation link is present (most likely common cause in a case like this, right?)
In this sort of case, I’d think “There’s probably some sort of actual physical process that produces bleggs, and some other process that produces rubes. That is, some process that produces things that have a high probability of being blue, egg shaped, etc etc etc… and similar for red cube shaped etc etc… Possibly distinct geological processes?”
So in that sense, the naive bayes network, with the implicit “but is it ACTUALLY a blegg?” style question would seem to reflect something legitimate, not just a name for the cluster. Specifically, such a question would translate to something like “which of, say, two distinct physical processes produced this?”