[SI-LIST] Re: Theory v. practice, following Re: DesignCon quote

From: Faraydon Pakbaz <pakbazf@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: brett.grossman@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:51:33 -0500
OK OK...Hold on a second happy quoters ....We are all exited and impressed
over something that is not a true or false statement but it is a
paradox....

Statements like:

"All simulations are wrong but some simulations are useful"

or

"All models are wrong but some models are useful"

make no sense consider the following:

  Epimenides was a Cretan who made one immortal statement: "All Cretans are
liars."

Did he told the truth or lied?

The answer is neither. Think about it.

When someone makes a statement about simulation and model like that, it
means he/she is a very
frustrated person( it happens all the time in signal integrity analysis).
If I want to have a perfect
model or perfect simulation, I need to model or include every variable in
my simulation or model.
So if I want to spend the time to do that, I might as well built the system
or design etc. I will save
lot of time to market and I will be a hero. Read "Kurt Godel"
incompleteness theorem. No axiomatic
system can be perfect because it will be self reflecting and will create
paradox. Bertrand Russell
and Alfred North Whitehead made such a false claim in their "Principia
Mathematica" and Godel
put the end to it. The art of matter is how to use 7 variables instead of
100 variables to get an insight
into the design or system by simulation. Take simulation and modeling
seriously. Very very seriously.

Regards;

Don Pakbaz

Silicon Solutions Engineering
IBM Systems & Technology Group



                                                                           
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Amen, to see the quotes (I am a collector).

One of my favorites ( I would attribute to Scott McMorrow on this list
just because it was the first place I saw it).

Relating to the success of some who are perhaps not the most deserving.
"Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes"


-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Richard Feldman
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 1:42 PM
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Cc: schumach@xxxxxx
Subject: [SI-LIST] Theory v. practice, following Re: DesignCon quote

It's rare and refreshing to see an online quotation
with its attribution retained or restored!
Wikiquote (thanks to hint from Pat Zabinski) just helped me
to link an author to this old favorite:

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.=3D20
But, in practice, there is."

From Wikiquote
Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut (1953-1994), computer scientist and educator
This has also been attributed to Yogi Berra.

-Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Richard Schumacher
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:56 PM
> To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: DesignCon quote
>=3D20
> Here's a reference to an even older citation, which I can't now check:
> ..."[George] Box used it as a heading in a book chapter in 1979.=3D20
>=3D20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Zabinski, Patrick J.
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 2:36 PM
> To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: DesignCon quote
>=3D20
> I found a slightly different citation on WikiQuote, which suggests =
=3D3D
> George Box and Norman Draper had two phrasings ...
> Wherever it came from, I like it...
>=3D20
> Pat
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