“Suppose the apprehension of beauty is itself a way to truth? Suppose that “elegance”—as the word is used by physicists to describe their discoveries—is a key to ultimate reality?” Rollo May
It would seem to me that any certainty arrived at must also fulfill an essential beauty or elegance in its simplicity and universal application to the understanding of what we call Reality. To my unscientific mind, most of what is termed science is unnecessarily complicated and tortured to the point that it is removed from Reality.
Well put! I have considerable sympathy with your aesthetic approach. Then again, scientists themselves claim to apply your approach via Ockham's Razor (aka simplicity), which ultimately is a faith-based principle (just saying), so be careful what you wish for!
This reminds me of my view of blockchain (upon which sit things like bitcoin aka digital tulips). This definitely is one of the most beautiful and elegant algorithms I've ever seen, and so dead easy to implement I once developed a reasonably complete blockchain software library while waiting for a train (ok, I decided to miss one to give myself an extra hour), just for fun. Yet I have doubts about its ultimate utility. :)
Why learn probability? Because the world runs on uncertainty, and probability is the language for understanding it. It’s the underpinnings every field that deals with risk or evidence…medicine, engineering, finance, AI, climate science—and it’s the foundation of all statistical reasoning. Learning probability also protects you from being fooled by bad science and sloppy arguments: the base-rate fallacy, Simpson’s paradox, p-hacking, misleading charts, and cherry-picked correlations all prey on statistical ignorance. Virtually every modern technology depends on probabilistic thinking, and intuition alone performs disastrously when dealing with rare events or conditional probabilities. And, more importantly beyond its practical value, probability is simply beautiful: a coherent framework of symmetry, randomness, and structure that reveals how complex systems behave. But it’s not easy!
“Suppose the apprehension of beauty is itself a way to truth? Suppose that “elegance”—as the word is used by physicists to describe their discoveries—is a key to ultimate reality?” Rollo May
It would seem to me that any certainty arrived at must also fulfill an essential beauty or elegance in its simplicity and universal application to the understanding of what we call Reality. To my unscientific mind, most of what is termed science is unnecessarily complicated and tortured to the point that it is removed from Reality.
Well put! I have considerable sympathy with your aesthetic approach. Then again, scientists themselves claim to apply your approach via Ockham's Razor (aka simplicity), which ultimately is a faith-based principle (just saying), so be careful what you wish for!
This reminds me of my view of blockchain (upon which sit things like bitcoin aka digital tulips). This definitely is one of the most beautiful and elegant algorithms I've ever seen, and so dead easy to implement I once developed a reasonably complete blockchain software library while waiting for a train (ok, I decided to miss one to give myself an extra hour), just for fun. Yet I have doubts about its ultimate utility. :)
I wonder if it was nature doing the science and not man if things would be better explained. Like nature explaining itself using its own science.
Why learn probability? Because the world runs on uncertainty, and probability is the language for understanding it. It’s the underpinnings every field that deals with risk or evidence…medicine, engineering, finance, AI, climate science—and it’s the foundation of all statistical reasoning. Learning probability also protects you from being fooled by bad science and sloppy arguments: the base-rate fallacy, Simpson’s paradox, p-hacking, misleading charts, and cherry-picked correlations all prey on statistical ignorance. Virtually every modern technology depends on probabilistic thinking, and intuition alone performs disastrously when dealing with rare events or conditional probabilities. And, more importantly beyond its practical value, probability is simply beautiful: a coherent framework of symmetry, randomness, and structure that reveals how complex systems behave. But it’s not easy!
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