Class 55: Models Vs Reality

This week starts Part II of the Class: scientific modeling, in all its glories and, alas, failures. Science is model happy, and judges too often the goodess of models by how beautiful they are, not how well the predict Reality.

Written lecture: https://www.wmbriggs.com/class/ https://wmbriggs.substack.com/

Jaynes's book:
http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/GaussianModel/
JaynesProbabilityTheory.pdf

Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

Subscribe or donate to support this site and its wholly independent host using
credit card: https://donorbox.org/site-donations-2

Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/wmbriggs