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| − | + | <blockquote> It may seem natural to think that, to understand a complex system, one must construct a model incorporating everything that one know about the system. However sensible this procedure may seem, in biology it has repeatedly turned out to be a sterile exercise. There are two snags with it. the first is that one finished up with a model so complicated that one cannot understand it; the point of a model is to simplify, not to confuse. The second is that if one constructs a sufficiently complex model one can make it do anything one likes by fiddling with the parameters: a model that can predict anything predicts nothing.</blockquote><ref>John Maynard Smith +1, The Origins of Life</ref? | |
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Revision as of 11:35, 20 August 2018
Full Title or Meme
Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.[1]
Context
It’s really hard to fix, analyze or explain a complex solution.
Engineers just use an aphorism: Keep it Simple Stupid or just KISS.
Problem
It may seem natural to think that, to understand a complex system, one must construct a model incorporating everything that one know about the system. However sensible this procedure may seem, in biology it has repeatedly turned out to be a sterile exercise. There are two snags with it. the first is that one finished up with a model so complicated that one cannot understand it; the point of a model is to simplify, not to confuse. The second is that if one constructs a sufficiently complex model one can make it do anything one likes by fiddling with the parameters: a model that can predict anything predicts nothing.<ref>John Maynard Smith +1, The Origins of Life</ref?
Solution
How many words does it take to describe the solution, not counting the UX.
With a solution like that it would be impossible to add anything that could make it better without invalidating the solution itself.
References
- ↑ Albert Einstein said something like that
