"A deep-learning system doesn't have any explanatory power," as Hinton put it flatly.
Like Augustine, Baron-Cohen emphasises that evil, being itself inexplicable, lacks any explanatory power.
An average of 27 seconds to leave any explanatory notes is included within the 310 second target.
And from science, as from any explanatory framework, we tend to seek instant gratification, the reassuring company of others, and simplicity.
The concept of a universal sense of morality thus lacks any explanatory purchase on the way that we behave in any particular circumstances.
That's fantastic for any explanatory statistic, but that doesn't necessarily make it optimally designed to tell us who is going to win games this weekend.
The absence of any explanatory apparatus limits the pedagogical effectiveness of "Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind," but if you know at least some of the names and some of the history, it is a moving and intriguing reverie.
Senate Republicans have also tried to stop the Obama administration from telling the truth about the law, cutting off money for publicity and warning sports teams not to join any explanatory ads.
This refusal to grant belief any explanatory power shows purity and toughness on the writer's part, but it also calls to mind what my Catholic ancestors called scrupulosity, an avoidance that comes at the cost of fullness of life.
To be descriptively adequate from a linguistic point of view, the set of features must be able to provide a different representation for each of the words that is phonologically distinct in a language; and if the feature set is to have any explanatory power it must also be able to classify phonemes into appropriate natural classes as required in the phonological rules of each language.
Indeed the normative nature of the project dominates any explanatory aim.
