Quote of the Day
"The simplest explanation is the best"
-- Occam's Razor
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor)
-- Occam's Razor
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor)
posted by andrew at 8:52 PM
Due to a clerical error, I was accepted to a summer engineering research program at UC Berkeley. This oversight is widespread, evident by the mysterious checks they are sending me for "doing research". I am still investigating what this means and will update this page with my findings.
posted by andrew at 8:52 PM
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"Occam's Razor is often abused and cited where it is inapplicable. It does not say that the simplest account is to be preferred regardless of its capacity to explain outliers, exceptions, or other phenomena in question. The principle of falsifiability requires that any exception that can be reliably reproduced should invalidate the simplest theory, and that the next-simplest account which can actually incorporate the exception as part of the theory should then be preferred to the first."
--Brent's Disagreement
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