40 min.
Mathematical Models Everything is Arbitrary
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Models are pervasive, but you don't see them. They affect our lives in a range of ways: weather forecasting, political polling, search engines, bridge design, insurance costs, economic crashes, crashes on Mars... In order to make them we have to pick and choose what data to abstract and what to ignore. And sometimes those choices can be arbitrary. Listen to mathematician Lindon Roberts talk about the problems with mathematical models, and why we use them anyway.
Models are pervasive, but you don't see them. They affect our lives in a range of ways: weather forecasting, political polling, search engines, bridge design, insurance costs, economic crashes, crashes on Mars... In order to make them we have to pick and choose what data to abstract and what to ignore. And sometimes those choices can be arbitrary. Listen to mathematician Lindon Roberts talk about the problems with mathematical models, and why we use them anyway.
40 min.