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The truth about simulations

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We often fail to realize how little we know about a thing until we attempt to simulate it on a computer.

- Donald Knuth

(HT: John Nicol)

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Written by Paul Currion

May 16th, 2008 at 6:58 am

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  1. Deep. Swap “fail” and “attempt” :)

    Tom L

    16 May 08 at 14:17

  2. As the famous
    Statistician/Biologist P. Box once said
    “All models are wrong, it’s just that some are useful”

    Same applies to simulations – which is just the running of a model with a bunch of different parameters.

    Nigel Snoad

    17 May 08 at 12:11

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