Physics went through this same argument with thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Predictive, statistical models pretty much won. And then along came quantum mechanics---there's nothing descriptive there at all.
We were discussing machine learning not models which contain statistical properties. And both statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics are descriptive, what they are not is determinate.
Physics went through this same argument with thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Predictive, statistical models pretty much won. And then along came quantum mechanics---there's nothing descriptive there at all.