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But that's not a crisis of math, it's a crisis of business trying to use math that is not made for it. It's the Post Office Scandal all over again. Overreliance
by pas 5y ago
But that's not a crisis of math, it's a crisis of business trying to use math that is not made for it. It's the Post Office Scandal all over again. Overreliance on shitty models, lack of quality assurance, etc. (Or if we look at it like the O-ring debacle of the Challenger accident, or the usual problem of one-off creations, like the Hubble, JWST, or any other public project that is late and over budget. And the F35 is also in this category, because it's also the problem of forcing a model on people that has so many free parameters that it's an endless argument about nothing.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
- zmgsabst 5y agoYou’re trying to correct me about something I experienced first hand in my career — and you’re coming across as ignorant. What you lament as “business trying to use math that is not made for it” is precisely the problem: Mathematics can’t be reliably applied, even if you hire a dozen world class PhDs, hundreds of software engineers, and let them spend years trying to make it work. That’s a crisis.