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What is Ockham's razor principle??

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What is Ockham's razor principle??

Issue #3

Ashwin Sharma P
Apr 4, 2021
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What is Ockham's razor principle??

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In this issue, I have come up with the topic of Ockham’s razor principle.

Ockham’s razor principle, also called Occam’s razor principle is named after the philosopher Wiliam who was born in Ockham. It puts forward the theory that in most cases, the simpler solutions are more likely to be correct. It puts forward the fact that if two arguments are equally likely to be true, then consider the one with fewer conditions. Removing unnecessary explanations or conditions is the main idea of this principle.

The principle is also expressed as “Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.”

There is ‘n’ number of examples, where this principle comes into play. Two of which are:

Eg: 1) Copernicus proposed the Heliocentric Model which is simple as compared to the geocentric model which was widely believed at his time.

Eg: 2) Basic probability theory also is based on Ockham’s razor principle. We know that every assumption introduces a possibility of an error. So if an assumption does not increase accuracy, then it increases the error rate.

It is still an effective way of reasoning in both everyday life and science.

Podcast link:

(Interesting discussion on this topic from Lex Fridman with Marcus Hutter)


Here are some of the insightful tweets I came across after the last issue :)

• David shares about Bryson and the unique techniques used by him.

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David Perell @david_perell
Bryson DeChambeau might be the most innovative athlete in the world right now. He just won his first major championship and is changing how golf is played at the highest levels. People call him "The Mad Scientist of Golf." Here's what you can learn from him. THREAD
10:40 PM ∙ Sep 20, 2020
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• Great thread on autoencoders by Prashant.

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Prashant @capeandcode
Ever heard of Autoencoders? The first time I saw a Neural Network with more output neurons than in the hidden layers, I couldn't figure how it would work?! #DeepLearning #MachineLearning Here's a little something about them: 🧵👇
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6:12 PM ∙ Feb 11, 2021
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• Harsh shares about MetaCall, which supports mixing of languages, and easy deployment.

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Harsh Mishra @harsh_casper
Ever wondered if you can use your Python ML Scripts within your NodeJS Apps? @metacallio allows you to mix languages through its Core CLI 🤩 You can also deploy these apps on a highly-scalable FaaS by just uploading a ZIP ⚡️ Find a demo here: github.com/metacall/ml-ne…
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2:25 PM ∙ Mar 31, 2021
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