Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 22, 2014The philosophical purpose of data science is apparently to muddy elegant and simple theories, preferably irretrievably. Chaos, not insight.625
BrianSJ@BrianSJ3·Aug 23, 2014Replying to @vgr@vgr Did you read Jerry Weinberg 'General Systems Theory' on Newton? His analysis types attached.11
BrianSJ@BrianSJ3·Aug 23, 2014Replying to @vgr@vgr ! - Says that statistics is in the chaotic domain, cannot produce simple elegance by its nature.1