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How do you decide which tool is the best for the job?
by murbard2 10y ago
How do you decide which tool is the best for the job?
- kobeya 10y agoThe one that yields the simpler solution.
- dragandj 10y agoHow do you know which one leads to any good solution, let alone a simple solution?
- kgwgk 10y agoAnother option is to choose the one that yields the (more) correct solution.
- murbard2 10y agoHow do you know the solution is any good? I'm not going to go all Socrates on you so I'll jump to my point: when discussing bayesian statistics, we're touching something very profound about epistemology that can't be swept under the rug in the name of pragmatism. We're dealing with the core philosophical underpinnings of what it means to "know" something.