Yesterday, when I was reading A.I. lecture notes for preparing mid term exam, I found an interesting topic, the Occam's razor. It is a simple principle noted by English logician, William of Ockham. The principle is called in Latin as "lex parsimoniae", law of parsimony.
Simply it means "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." When many principles competnig each other with same coverage, the most uncomplicated one is correct one. it has many justification in many fields, also applications. From science, statistics to religion.
[caption id="attachment_57" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate - plurality is not to be posited without necessity "]
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For my own opinion, I have a statistical point of view. Uncertainty derived this principle. If we took a theory with lots of explanations for uncovered issue, it means it also have a chance to fail with its unmature expectations.
Hasty anxiety, that's what I want to say with this theory. Why so serious with every possible situations that can happen or not. It doesn't help you to prepare yourself for the future.
As a result, I started not to make a large complicated plan. Instead of it, I usually short and flexable plan with many free times. Or.. no plan at all, but It doesn't seems to justify my laziness.
p.s. The razor means the act of shaving off away unnecessary conditions of a theory.
"entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem" (latin)
(entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity)
"Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate" (latin)
(plurality should not be posited without necessity) ((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor))
Simply it means "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." When many principles competnig each other with same coverage, the most uncomplicated one is correct one. it has many justification in many fields, also applications. From science, statistics to religion.
[caption id="attachment_57" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate - plurality is not to be posited without necessity "]
[/caption]For my own opinion, I have a statistical point of view. Uncertainty derived this principle. If we took a theory with lots of explanations for uncovered issue, it means it also have a chance to fail with its unmature expectations.
Hasty anxiety, that's what I want to say with this theory. Why so serious with every possible situations that can happen or not. It doesn't help you to prepare yourself for the future.
As a result, I started not to make a large complicated plan. Instead of it, I usually short and flexable plan with many free times. Or.. no plan at all, but It doesn't seems to justify my laziness.
p.s. The razor means the act of shaving off away unnecessary conditions of a theory.
