Researcher mocks math discourse for treating parsimony as a novel invention
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-13
The author criticizes the ongoing 'math discourse' for treating parsimony as an advanced concept its proponents invented and must keep explaining to everyone, when in fact every field has long had the notion of first assessing whether a problem is even solvable, then optimizing answers.
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