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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by edoo on Saturday November 03, 2018 @03:19AM (#18369131)
You could almost say we mostly learn from failures. If you had blind success with a complex method the only way to test the limits would be tweaking it to failure.
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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by tomcam on Saturday November 03, 2018 @08:42PM (#18373338)
That's an incredibly eloquent way to put it. Even though it's how I live most of my life I was never smart enough to express it like you did. Thank you.
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