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This works until the analogue of monotremes shows up to ruin your supposedly flawless categorisation.
by gsg 5y ago
This works until the analogue of monotremes shows up to ruin your supposedly flawless categorisation.
- gifnamething 5y agoYAGNI
- nfw2 5y agoI didn't say the categorization was flawless; I said it reduced the complexity of the information. Categories can be useful without being flawless.
- rmdashrfstar 5y agoIt is not a “can be”, it’s a “must be”. Models or an abstraction of complexity are necessarily both reductionist and useful.