The Limits of Correctness, by Bryan Cantwell Smith [pdf]
post by cousin_it · 2017-08-25T11:36:38.585Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 3 commentsThis is a link post for https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492/11public_html/p18-smith.pdf
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comment by IlyaShpitser · 2017-08-25T12:46:20.231Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
"The lesson to be learned from the violence inherent in the model-world relationship, in other words, is that there is an inherent conflict between the power of analysis and conceptualization, on the one hand, and sensitivity to the infinite richness, on the other."
Statisticians have a name for this trade off.
Replies from: turchin↑ comment by turchin · 2017-08-25T12:54:06.304Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
And what is the name?
Replies from: IlyaShpitser↑ comment by IlyaShpitser · 2017-08-25T18:23:48.049Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Bias/variance tradeoff.