Thank you Abram. Yes, factored cognition is more what I had in mind. However, I think it’s possible to speak of decomposition generally enough to say that PCA/SVD is a decomposer, albeit an incredibly parochial one that’s not very useful to factored cognition.
Like, my read of IDA is that the distillation step is proposing a class of algorithms, and we may find that SVD was a member of that class all along.
Thank you Abram. Yes, factored cognition is more what I had in mind. However, I think it’s possible to speak of decomposition generally enough to say that PCA/SVD is a decomposer, albeit an incredibly parochial one that’s not very useful to factored cognition.
Like, my read of IDA is that the distillation step is proposing a class of algorithms, and we may find that SVD was a member of that class all along.