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Re:No one cared about my spreadsheets by henrikschroder on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:28AM (#30370441)
- To fully understand poetry, we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme and figures of speech, then ask two questions: 1) How artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered and 2) How important is that objective? Question 1 rates the poem's perfection; question 2 rates its importance. And once these questions have been answered, determining the poem's greatness becomes a relatively simple matter. If the poem's score for perfection is plotted on the horizontal of a graph--

- O Captain! My Captain!

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Re:No one cared about my spreadsheets by burrows on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:51AM (#30370540)
Right. But I didn’t assert that all things can be gainfully modeled.

I suggested that the non-specific incompleteness of a model isn’t a compelling reason not to use the model.

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Re:No one cared about my spreadsheets by spdionis on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:02AM (#30371404)
The person you were arguing with is saying that it's a compelling reason to not use the model because, I quote, the conclusions of the model are "batshit insane".
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