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Re:Booleans Are a Trap by knorthfield on Sunday November 10, 2024 @08:11AM (#42100004)
All mental models fail to represent the real world completely. That’s kind of a fundamental feature of them.
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Re:Booleans Are a Trap by bluepizza on Sunday November 10, 2024 @08:28AM (#42100096)
Yes, because they are focused on the relevant parts for solving a specific problem.

So one could say that the article's fundamental flaw is not explaining what is the purpose of the model, therefore we cannot assess if it is capturing the relevant aspects to solve the problem.

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