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I find the condition in your loop hard to test. A more realistic algorithm would be: while (model is not useful in the real world): collect data
by beza1e1 17y ago
I find the condition in your loop hard to test. A more realistic algorithm would be:
while (model is not useful in the real world):
collect data
adapt model to fit data
The problem here is that "useful" is a quite low barrier. So for the second publication you also need to improve the usefulness of your model compared to the other models around.
That describes the work of scientists quite well.
- Kliment 17y agoWell, that was the joke, it was a play on while(True). It's an infinite loop, because you can never detect truth. And neither Hertz nor Mach said anything about usefulness. Also, I wonder why I can only think of physicists when thinking about definitions of science. The work of a lot of scientists today can be described by while not tenured: publish bully others into citing you if you have time: do a bit of empirical work