#occam's razor

[falcemartello]

E pensare che la risposta giusta a quasi tutto è: “non me ne frega un cazzo”.

[vaspider]

Okay I know I said I was going to sleep but y'all.

Are people seriously saying that a company that can't properly bolt on a door or an emergency slide has perfect opsec on a contract killing plan to off a dude by giving him MRSA, pneumonia, and a stroke?

Is that really the argument people are making?

Really?

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

David Rowe

* * * *

Do not allow pundits to “normalize” the election result.

Just as the media normalized Trump before the election, there is a wholesale effort to “normalize” the election results. Pundits are claiming the election was decided by voters’ concerns over inflation, immigration, or crime. Those issues are post-facto rationalizations offered by voters to conceal their real reasons for voting for a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual abuser over an eminently qualified candidate.

Kamala Harris lost because Trump's supporters were motivated by racism, misogyny, and white supremacy. They voted for a felon and against prosecutor/senator/vice president because she is a woman of Black and South Asian ancestry. All of the remaining explanations are camouflage to conceal the real motivations of those who voted against Kamala Harris.

We will learn nothing if we accept pollsters’ dog-and-pony show to explain the election with exit polls and crosstabs in spreadsheets that have nothing to do with the real motivations of voters. Do not conflate data with information. Do not mistake information for knowledge. Do not confuse knowledge and understanding. Do not accept percentages and cohorts in response to the simple but profound question, “Why?”

Racism. Misogyny. White supremacy. Occam’s Razor.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

[jellybeanium124]

you know if we're living in a simulation there's probably millions of signs but all of that is just normal to us because we've only ever lived in the simulation.

[eucanthos]

eucanthos

Peter Downsbrough graph paper, 1972

Zanocco Customed industrial solutions [eyebrow]

Eye On the anatomy of vertebrates Richard Owen 1866

Larsen Sotelo One Eye 2022

1920's green Tin Toy telephone

Yayoi Kusama to Georgia O'Keeffe 1963 paper cut

[regurgitated older collage Jan 30, 2024 post]

OCCAM’S RAZOR The principle of simplicity or parsimony:

"if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one"

https://www.newscientist.com/definition/occams-razor/

PDF: https://ruccs.rutgers.edu/images/personal-jacob-feldman/papers/feldman_simplicity_2016.pdf

[quinloki]

Outside the box

Source

[thedwarfdotnet]

Occam's Razor

[detective-jane-rizzoli]

[humornthoughts]

(Transcript for those of you with screen readers bcuz I couldn’t figure out how to attach it to the image itself on mobile for some reason)

Person 1:

Chekov's Cat: if you see a cat in the first act, it will probably be relevant later. (example: Alien)

Shrodinger's razor: an unopened box may or may not contain the solution to the story; there's no way to know without opening it. (example: Monk)

Occam's gun: the simplest way to kill off a character is to shoot them. (example: Bambi)

Person 2:

Chekov's Box: If there is a container introduced in the opening act, it will be opened later.

Schrodinger's Gun: Treat every gun as if It's loaded unless you've checked it yourself.

Occar's Cat: If you hear strange noises at night, it's probably a cat.

Person 3:

Chekhov's gun: a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed.

Occam's razor: if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one.

Shrodingers cat- a cat in a box with poison that has a 50% chance of breaking, we will not know if the cat is dead or alive until opening the box leaving the cat in a perpetual state of uncertainty

[taillow-suift]

why did they make rowlet so comfortable with misty? rowlet would usually only sleep on ash’s head but all of a sudden it’s inclined to sit on misty’s as well. ash’s head is like a home for rowlet so is misty’s head also considered his home now too? is rowlet saying that misty an extension of ash and/or that misty is like his second owner??

why did they make misty not mind rowlet sleeping on her head? like she instantly got used to him sitting there. it was as if they were communicating that misty will continue to let rowlet sit on her head in future episodes or even beyond the end of the anime. does misty assume that ash’s pokemon are also hers to take care of? are they saying that misty will continue to be with ash even beyond the end of the anime that rowlet made a justifiable habit out of this?

why did they make misty reference the red string of fate?

why did they in emphasize how well ash and misty’s pokemon get along in general?

why did they go out of their way to draw big hearts between clauncher and corphish when they knew about the optics of what it would mean for ash and misty?

why even have an episode at all about the inseparability of a pokemon misty owns and a pokemon Ash owns?

why clauncher and corphish in the first place?

why not make it easy on yourself and just show the lure now instead of potentially trapping yourself for the inevitable episode with dawn?

why have misty physically wrap her line on ash’s wrist, why be so dramatic and intimate about it? why not grab ash’s hat or sleeve, something less physical?

why have ash and misty have the same goofy 1-to-1 expression when they’re dunked in the water, would they do that for any other pokegirl this late in the series?

why even have a battle this episode, what does it prove that misty can beat ash even though he’s a champion?

why have ash in the previous episode not have any idea where to go, only relying on his gut of what feels right, capped by him meeting misty who talks about fate albeit, delusionally, when it comes to clauncher?

[dappersappho]

“I think the takeaway from this is that Democrats ran a bad campaign.”

Wasn’t Biden’s whole thing the fact that “at least I’m not Trump”? And he still got like 80 million people to come out for him?

[falcemartello]

Buongiorno,

fa un freddo cane, ma per non inquinare la Terra non possiamo accendere il riscaldamento.

Immagina ritenere normale dover aspettare l’autorizzazione del sindaco per accendere il riscaldamento. LOL

[phantomstag]

panzerfaust — occam's razor

each age must pay a price for indifference

you needn‘t look any further

the universe is wrought with their works

[andnowanowl]

"The people of Roanoke disappeared without a trace." Did no one ever think to check the water? It was a damn island and supposedly they left for another one, did no one ever think they sank in transit?

Edit: I know people think they intermarried with the local indigenous population, but have you seen...? *waves at all of the history of Turtle Island after European colonists came over*

[stevejones313]

Occam’s Razor

Random point, but just a reminder that Occam’s Razor is not “the simplest explanation is often the right one.”

Occam’s Razor is that one should start looking for solutions that require the least number of elements. Another way of saying it would be when looking for solutions, START with the least number of assumptions THAT MAKE SENSE.

Say you walk into your home and your sofa is missing. The first solution that requires the least number of elements is A PERSON stole your sofa. But does that make sense? Can ONE person have broken into your home and moved the sofa on their own? Sure it’s the ‘simplest’ solution, but it doesn’t make the most sense. Occam’s Razor would ask “what are the smallest number of assumptions required - THAT ALSO FIT THE FACTS - that explains this situation and MAKES SENSE?”

That could lead you to, very reasonably, say that at least TWO people stole your sofa. You started with the least number of elements (e.g. one culprit) and stopped at an explanation that had the least number of necessary elements that made sense (e.g. at least two culprits). That’s Occam’s Razor.

[fangirl-nadir]

Not to Occam's Razor the fairy/walrus discussion, but a fairy at my door could easily be a little kid in a cute costume (as little kids are apt to do) and a walrus at my door could easily be a furry (not that you see many walrus Sonas, but I've no doubt they're out there)