[FRIAM] NYTimes.com: The Problems in Modeling Nature, With Its Unruly Natural Tendencies

[Pamela McCorduck]

I know the journalist, and know her as very thoughtful.  I wonder if  
stuff got edited out of that piece by someone less thoughtful.


On Feb 22, 2007, at 10:03 PM, Phil Henshaw wrote:

> Yea I saw that, and was surprised the journalist had no counter views  
> to offer.   Of course there are good shortcuts, of course  
> the divergence of natural systems from models is not just simple  
> statistical error.   It sounds a little like the success of his  
> method, though, may have more to do with his not being able to measure  
> his errors though.
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