Geoff Hinton had been silent since he went to work for Google. Recently, however, Geoff has come out and started talking about something he calls dark knowledge. Maybe some questions shouldn’t be asked, but what does he mean by that? Image credit: Shadow of the Vampire Perhaps the first thing to understand here is the problem being solved: model complexity at test time. Complex models like ensembl
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