okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin on Nostr: Which brings us to an important concept, "All models are wrong, some are useful." ...

Which brings us to an important concept, "All models are wrong, some are useful." This is a decades old aphorism, but what does it mean? The gist is another aphorism "The map is not the territory".
A model is a snapshot, based on current information, current assumptions/algorithms, and current allocation of processing resources. "Reality" which is what the models try to represent, is constantly and unpredictably changing. Our data on reality also changes, which changes the modelling 3/