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statistical learning theory

Those of you interested in the historical literature on this sort of thing may be interested in cyberneticist’s Rosenblueth, Weiner, and Bigelow’s 1943 paper”Behavior, Purpose and Teleology”,

Thanks for the references, though the link doesn’t work (and is missing a space after it). I think it should point here.

EDIT: This post is old, so the link was probably broken in the move to LW 2.0.