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Lumpers vs Splitters is a fun categorization. When I see a group of things categorized I view it as a set partition and I wonder what equivalence relation is be
by BaronSamedi 6y ago
Lumpers vs Splitters is a fun categorization. When I see a group of things categorized I view it as a set partition and I wonder what equivalence relation is being used to distinguish the partitions (categories). The relation is usually unstated so it becomes a mental exercise to steelman the categorization by trying to think of one.
- klawed 6y ago“Lumpers vs Splitters” is itself a splitting or a lumping?
- smichel17 6y agoLumping, for sure. There's people in the middle who recognize the difference between rap and jazz, but not the different variants within.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoThis is a special case of the observation that no discretization of a continuous space is "correct". They are inherently subjective, and some may be more useful for any given purpose than others.
- jonny_eh 6y agoReminds me of a common review trope: "When it comes to X, people either love it or hate it, I'm somewhere in the middle"
- swyx 6y agoto mangle Jim Barksdale: there are only 2 ways to create insights - bundling ideas or unbundling them.