On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:35:14AM -0700, Ed LeBouthillier wrote:
On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 12:52 -0500, Norman Yarvin wrote:
Or you don't; you rely on experience instead. [...] On the other
hand, if in the same circumstances you think that you must first make
a model, you'll make one and it'll likely be
wrong.
The whole point of models is to collect the "wisdom of the ages," to
try to facilitate the decision making of those who don't have the
experiences. That way, not everyone has to reinvent everything and fail
as many times as those who came before them.
