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THE GROWING LACK OF REALITY Insanity on steroids 
Original article: Peter Burgess COMMENTARY When I was at school ... maybe when I was about 16 ... I struggled with mathematics and never was able to embrace the logic that a true 'mathematician' is able to comprehend. At some point I moved away from the rather theorateical realm of pure mathematics to something that seemed to be more like the real world. My simple idea was that very few 'points' on a graph were actual points, but were the summary result of a lot of points ... specifically I started to replace the 'points' on a graphical plot by a series of 'distributions' ... normal or otherwise. This change my perception of clarity to something a lot more realistic ... no longer a precise ''line' connecting the 'points', but more a fuzzy multidimensional shape that was connecting the points. Roodman is doing much the same thing as he points out that there are many errors that emerge when points are translated into a 'line' without doing some work to understand what the points are really telling the observer. This has become a significant problem as more and more people learn how to do something without much understanding of actually what they are doing. My impression is that this is emerging as a dangerous core problem with the emergence of 'big data', 'AI' and the need for more and more 'data' to support all of it. I have been hearing stories about how the supporting 'data' are being collected, and it seems that much of the process can be described as 'insantity on steroids!'. Peter Burgess | ||
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