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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9027374" data-attributes="member: 82106">NoAnd if your twice as efficient model has insufficient power to make any reliable predictions at all, can it even be called a model? Of course the general goal is approach 100% accuracy, and a possible goal is to remain within some predefined budget while doing so. That does not make 'smallness of model' a FEATURE. Sorry, this is simply untrue. But the key part here is &quot;insufficient power&quot;, and that's what we're really talking about here. The notion that I could predict weather with a 1D atmosphere model is ludicrous. The notion that I could predict political happenings and such from the World of Greyhawk Gazetteer is equally ridiculous in a similar way, they're simply not equipped with a representation of the necessary structure required to calculate anything at all.They aren't 'functions' at all, they are simply labels people are attaching to decisions they made about the fiction which bear no resemblance to modeling or simulation whatsoever. This is not efficiency. You are constructing a sand castle here in which you mistake your sand for concrete, something it simply isn't. Saying you don't have any cement in it makes things 'more efficient' is utterly missing the point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 9027374, member: 82106"] No And if your twice as efficient model has insufficient power to make any reliable predictions at all, can it even be called a model? Of course the general goal is approach 100% accuracy, and a possible goal is to remain within some predefined budget while doing so. That does not make 'smallness of model' a FEATURE. Sorry, this is simply untrue. But the key part here is "insufficient power", and that's what we're really talking about here. The notion that I could predict weather with a 1D atmosphere model is ludicrous. The notion that I could predict political happenings and such from the World of Greyhawk Gazetteer is equally ridiculous in a similar way, they're simply not equipped with a representation of the necessary structure required to calculate anything at all. They aren't 'functions' at all, they are simply labels people are attaching to decisions they made about the fiction which bear no resemblance to modeling or simulation whatsoever. This is not efficiency. You are constructing a sand castle here in which you mistake your sand for concrete, something it simply isn't. Saying you don't have any cement in it makes things 'more efficient' is utterly missing the point. [/QUOTE]

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