There are an awful lot of caveats that apply to the No Free Lunch theorem. Is it really very applicable in practice? If you’re just going to use it as a hand-wave concept, I think it’s more honest to use TANSTAAFL and make your lack of rigorous mathematical backing clear.
So, can anybody list a few lessons we can draw from the NFL theorem?
There are an awful lot of caveats that apply to the No Free Lunch theorem. Is it really very applicable in practice? If you’re just going to use it as a hand-wave concept, I think it’s more honest to use TANSTAAFL and make your lack of rigorous mathematical backing clear.
So, can anybody list a few lessons we can draw from the NFL theorem?