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learn from your mistakes

October 9, 2009

Being wrong is a feature, not a bug, if it helps you evolve a model that works: you start out with an idea that’s just plain wrong, but that contains the seed of a better idea. You improve it, and you’re only somewhat wrong. You improve it again, and you end up the only game in town.  Otherwise, you are doomed to become extinct.  Look at the painful demise of the newspaper industry:

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=629

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