A reminder that we should seek an economical description of natural phenomenon, since all models are wrong...

#datascience #statistics #ml #ai #georgebox

To paraphrase #GeorgeBox, all #analogies are wrong, but some are useful.

Lot of folks involved in the #FediverseSearch discussions get really hung up on the VERY SPECIFIC DETAILS of their analogies. It's not a coffee shop or a pedestrian zone, it's a social network. It's literally unlike any of the things folks are analogizing with.