Pedro Domingos: when your pet technique fails, just rename something else as it
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-23
Notable CS professor Pedro Domingos quips that when the technique you've been pushing doesn't work and you don't want to lose face, you do something else and call it by the same name — citing RL as the example, a jab at how the label 'reinforcement learning' is stretched today.
Related event: Pedro Domingos claims reinforcement learning is basically useless(3 posts)→
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