Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 7, 2021Reality is merely the cheapest simulator of sufficiently complex models814117
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 7, 2021Not really a joke. The threshold is much lower than you might think. It’s much cheaper to simply build and try out even fairly simple things than to model them accurately enough in expensive software to try out.3236
Venkatesh Rao@vgrSimulations pay off when you have to do hundreds of refinements and variations for evolution. It’s economies of iteration scale.5:43 AM · Apr 7, 20212 Retweets17 Likes
dorian@doriantaylor·Apr 7, 2021Replying to @vgrsimulations are also good for numerically probing sweet spots in phase spaces
Kevin Riggle@kevinriggle·Apr 7, 2021Replying to @vgrAs a former coworker's email signature put it, "The best material model of a cat is another or, preferably, the same cat."1