Re:Science without Validation in a World without Meaning
by a9h74j on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @06:27PM
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> The parameter space is immense
This. This. This.
I've seen claims that the number of parameters in the Imperial College agent-based model was c.a. 400. Perhaps it was 40.
Compare to a quadratic or quartic fit to some log-lin data. If you have to represent your ratio of poorly-constrained model parameters (40 or 400) to apparently necessary parameters (say 4) _using Big-O notation_, then science has arguably left the premises.
This. This. This.
I've seen claims that the number of parameters in the Imperial College agent-based model was c.a. 400. Perhaps it was 40.
Compare to a quadratic or quartic fit to some log-lin data. If you have to represent your ratio of poorly-constrained model parameters (40 or 400) to apparently necessary parameters (say 4) _using Big-O notation_, then science has arguably left the premises.