No Free Lunch theorem – Uncommon Descent

At Forbes, Ethan Siegel explains that there IS such a thing as a free lunch

All the heat the others have taken for insisting otherwise can now, apparently, be airily waved away.

Can a big enough computer come up with a Theory of Everything? Eric Holloway says yer dreamin’…

Bottom line: The rigorously proven No Free Lunch theorem shows that physicists will always be needed to determine the correct questions. No computer will do all our thinking for us.

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