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It may depend "with whom you talk", but I have impression of three cultures: - statisticians (frequentist statistics, bayesian statistics; trying to find an un
by stared 11y ago
It may depend "with whom you talk", but I have impression of three cultures:
- statisticians (frequentist statistics, bayesian statistics; trying to find an underlying probabilistic model, even if at cost of underfitting)
- computer scientists (algorithms; ad-hoc methodology with goal of predicting data as well as possible)
- physicists (physics-motivated tools, relatively clean and composable mathematics; trying to get some properties of phenomena, even if at cost of cherry-picking "spheres in the vacuum")
- tormeh 11y agoOld joke: A farmer has a problem with his hens not laying any eggs, and he goes to a physicist for help. "Well", says the physicist, "I can help you if I can assume that the eggs are perfect cubes, and that the egg-laying process happens in a frictionless, airless existence with no gravity".