Gogol Bordello is much more than schtick; live shows from the Hütz-fronted gypsy punks are the things of legend. “For people who have an actual background in gypsy culture,” Hütz says, “it’s much more sacred fire than fashion and trend-chasing, and that basically outlines our attitude about it. Our thing was about preserving the fire [...]
Do shorter hypotheses result in more generalization? We have Occam’s razor as borrowed from Statistical Learning Theory: Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity. Vapnik provides two reinterpretations, the common: The simplest explanation is the best. And the structural risk minimization version: The explanation by the machine with the smallest capacity (VC dimension) is the [...]