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Jayson_Virissimo comments on From Philosophy to Math to Engineering - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: lukeprog 04 November 2013 03:43PM

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 04 November 2013 06:17:41PM 0 points [-]

Is the guy on the left Sewall Wright?

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 04 November 2013 06:38:38PM 0 points [-]

Whoops, you said post-1950s.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 04 November 2013 07:05:16PM 0 points [-]

Also Sewall Wright was no philosopher -- he was a biologist. Faced with a problem on the left, he basically correctly formalized and solved it for the linear/Gaussian case. He should be in the middle with Judea and on the right with engineers!