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Occam’s Grooming Tools
I’ve come to the conclusion that conspiracy theorists bypass Occam’s razor in favour of Occam’s epilator!
#AucklandComedy #Comedy #NZComedy #OccamSRazor -
This print “Occam’s Razor” is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), “pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate” or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right. The print shows Ockham himself, inspired by an image of him from a 🧵 1/n
#linocut #printmaking #Ockham #OccamsRazor #typography #sciArt #philosophy #histsci #MastoArt -
Is it out of line to apply #OccamsRazor to the present moment, in America? It could be. But if not, then...
The United States simply ought to have enshrined a process of ranked-choice voting in its Constitution. Ceteris paribus. That would have made its current political landscape much more unlikely.
Part of me believes this criticism of the US deserves priority over almost all other criticisms—even now.
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This print "Occam's Razor" is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), "pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate" or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right. 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #Occam #Ockham #OccamsRazor #typography #sciArt #philosophy #histstm #imaginaryfriends #science #cryptids #MastoArt -
A reminder that the simplest explanations to observations are not guaranteed to be correct. They're merely more likely to be correct than explanations with more unnecessary variables.
Sometimes there really is a conspiracy or a complex scheme afoot, or at least the correct explanation is more complex than one might otherwise expect.
Every now and then when you hear hoofbeats, there are zebras, not horses. But you might still want to check for horses first, especially if you're not on the same continent that provides habitat to zebras.
The occasional finding of zebras, however, does not indicate that you should always suspect zebras, at least not without checking for horses first.
It's never lupus... except that one time that it was.
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from the standpoint of model selection, parsimony often boils down to dimensionality reduction
#modelSelection #parsimony #OccamsRazor #dimensionalityReduction #degreesOfFreedom #complexity #informationTheory #biasVarianceTradeoff #overfitting #underfitting #optimization #parameterTuning #crossValidation #inverseProblems #inference #statisticalLearning #machineLearning #ML #dataScience #modeling #decisionTheory #fitting #regression #classification #residualError #costFunction #performanceLoss
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from the standpoint of model selection, parsimony often boils down to dimensionality reduction
#modelSelection #parsimony #OccamsRazor #dimensionalityReduction #degreesOfFreedom #complexity #informationTheory #biasVarianceTradeoff #overfitting #underfitting #optimization #parameterTuning #crossValidation #inverseProblems #inference #statisticalLearning #machineLearning #ML #dataScience #modeling #decisionTheory #fitting #regression #classification #residualError #costFunction #performanceLoss
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from the standpoint of model selection, parsimony often boils down to dimensionality reduction
#modelSelection #parsimony #OccamsRazor #dimensionalityReduction #degreesOfFreedom #complexity #informationTheory #biasVarianceTradeoff #overfitting #underfitting #optimization #parameterTuning #crossValidation #inverseProblems #inference #statisticalLearning #machineLearning #ML #dataScience #modeling #decisionTheory #fitting #regression #classification #residualError #costFunction #performanceLoss
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from the standpoint of model selection, parsimony often boils down to dimensionality reduction
#modelSelection #parsimony #OccamsRazor #dimensionalityReduction #degreesOfFreedom #complexity #informationTheory #biasVarianceTradeoff #overfitting #underfitting #optimization #parameterTuning #crossValidation #inverseProblems #inference #statisticalLearning #machineLearning #ML #dataScience #modeling #decisionTheory #fitting #regression #classification #residualError #costFunction #performanceLoss
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from the standpoint of model selection, parsimony often boils down to dimensionality reduction
#modelSelection #parsimony #OccamsRazor #dimensionalityReduction #degreesOfFreedom #complexity #informationTheory #biasVarianceTradeoff #overfitting #underfitting #optimization #parameterTuning #crossValidation #inverseProblems #inference #statisticalLearning #machineLearning #ML #dataScience #modeling #decisionTheory #fitting #regression #classification #residualError #costFunction #performanceLoss
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This print "Occam's Razor" is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), "pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate" or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right.
#linocut #printmaking #OccamsRazor #typography #sciArt #philosophy #histstm #imaginaryfriends #science #cryptids