> many works do get submitted to academic venues that aren't up to this quality
There's that normative argument rearing its head again. Not interested in jumping off bridges just because your friends do it, thanks.
It is unserious. The thesis amounts to "statistical models like these are mean-field, roughly-max-entropy approximations under the implied data generating process" which is not only an offhand comment a professor might make in ML 201 but tautological on its face. The fact they drag in a couple citations to say as much is besides the point entirely.
There's that normative argument rearing its head again. Not interested in jumping off bridges just because your friends do it, thanks.
It is unserious. The thesis amounts to "statistical models like these are mean-field, roughly-max-entropy approximations under the implied data generating process" which is not only an offhand comment a professor might make in ML 201 but tautological on its face. The fact they drag in a couple citations to say as much is besides the point entirely.