As you read this Substack version please keep in mind that subscripts and superscripts were not displayed after uploading. In his popular book A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, John Allen Paulos tells a story about a museum guard who told a group of visitors that the age of the dinosaur skeleton on display was 97,000,006 years old. Asked how he knew that, the guard replied, “When I started working at the museum six years ago, I was told the dinosaur skeleton was 97 million years old.”
Thanks for the post on known unkowns. AS many, including Briggs, rightfully say the models are only as good as their initial assumptions and conditions. Also liked your emphasis on the goodness of data, which is most relevant in today's AI world (garbage-in/garbage-out).
Thanks for the post on known unkowns. AS many, including Briggs, rightfully say the models are only as good as their initial assumptions and conditions. Also liked your emphasis on the goodness of data, which is most relevant in today's AI world (garbage-in/garbage-out).