With curve-fitting, you are recording a lossy approximation of the output of some generative program. With symbolic learning, you are losslessly reverse-engineering the source code of the generative program. Symbolic learning won't be the best fit for all problems, but for the ones where the latent program is reasonably simple, it will outperform by many orders of magnitude.

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