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

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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!