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Interesting. You've made me realize that models (in the scientific sense) are lossy transformations of reality.
by busyant 5y ago
Interesting. You've made me realize that models (in the scientific sense) are lossy transformations of reality.
- andrewingram 5y agoYeah, this is how I think about Newtonian Mechanics -- a useful abstraction.
- Koshkin 5y agoStarting with “point particle.” (By the way, theoretical mechanics has long been considered part of mathematics.)
- dTal 5y agoMoreover, the point of a model is to be lossy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
- arethuza 5y agoSpherical cows being the obvious example - in some circumstances that might be a perfectly valid modelling assumption.