Mathematical Patterns That Eventually Fail

Re:Mathematical Patterns That Eventually Fail by weinzierl on Saturday September 22, 2018 @04:34PM (#18047850)

“The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

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Re:Mathematical Patterns That Eventually Fail by shoo on Saturday September 22, 2018 @08:19PM (#18048696)

"the trend is your friend until the end when it bends"

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Re:Mathematical Patterns That Eventually Fail by westoncb on Saturday September 22, 2018 @06:10PM (#18048282)

That's a pretty interesting quote. Can anyone provide some more context for it?

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Re:Mathematical Patterns That Eventually Fail by unsung on Saturday September 22, 2018 @07:50PM (#18048622)

He was talking about some of the limits of just inferring that repeated behavior is induced ad infinitum. He talks about it more. [0]

[0] www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/RBwritings/ProbPhiloBook/chap-VI.htm

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Re:Mathematical Patterns That Eventually Fail by whatshisface on Saturday September 22, 2018 @10:45PM (#18049110)

The decision to wring the chicken's neck was made by a brain that did not repeat its state even a single time.

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Re:Mathematical Patterns That Eventually Fail by dwaltrip on Sunday September 23, 2018 @01:58AM (#18049608)

I took it to emphasize how all models are approximations and thus may fail in surprising ways.

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Re:Mathematical Patterns That Eventually Fail by csp256 on Saturday September 22, 2018 @07:38PM (#18048587)

He was a pretty smart guy who said some smart things.

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