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It is hard. And isn't. How hard is it? In number of years / hours. Relative to what? > “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in
by emmelaich 3y ago
It is hard. And isn't. How hard is it? In number of years / hours. Relative to what?
> “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.”
-- Lord Kelvin
- user3939382 3y agoSo Walt Whitman would express his mastery of poetry by what, the number of poems he's written? It sounds like something worth considering only in some contexts but is phrased as an absolute.
- emmelaich 3y agoPerfectly reasonable and expected response. I think if you asked Lord Kelvin he would say it meant only in a particular context. If you said Whitman was more prolific than, say, Frost, but didn't have the numbers then it is an empty assertion.
- user3939382 3y agoYep I agree.
- pixl97 3y agoHow can you assign a number to an unbounded problem?