Terence Tao on Nostr: npub158jnk…cuprh npub1f8uzr…c6jw9 Here the famous quote of George Box is apropos: ...

npub158jnk83jzpwm0xwa2qpf09zewutdy5sq26uga2rqf3lpu9nthpfq5cuprh (npub158j…uprh) npub1f8uzrvkeks7lw3a5c9s0hlmjjtya3zt9mq4ugle39ksgc52py0fq4c6jw9 (npub1f8u…6jw9) Here the famous quote of George Box is apropos: "All models are wrong, but some are useful". As I stated in the very beginning of my post, these models should always be taken as first approximations to get started, rather than the definitive statement on the matter.

The same of course applies to Box's dictum itself, but that only proves the point. The important thing is not to be 100% correct from the very beginning, but to get started with an imperfect, but partially successful, framework, and refine from there.