Monkey Mind

Episode 004: All Abstractions Are Wrong But Some Are Useful


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David and Grace talk about abstraction in statistics, computing, mathematics and a few other things besides.

Birth-death process

Akaike information criterion

Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Subtraction.com

The Law of Leaky Abstractions

Logic gate

The 10,000 Domino Computer

CS50's Introduction to Computer Science

Floating-point arithmetic

Single Variable Calculus

Zone of proximal development

principle of specificity

Progressive overload

Species distribution modelling

Population genetics

Coalescent theory

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