| ▲ | i_am_a_peasant 3 hours ago | |||||||
Reminds me of that von Neumann quote "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." | ||||||||
| ▲ | aleph_minus_one an hour ago | parent [-] | |||||||
> "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." Indeed: here are two papers on this topic: Jürgen Mayer; Khaled Khairy; Jonathon Howard. Drawing an elephant with four complex parameters. 2010. https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article-abstract/78/6/648/1042... Article without paywall : https://publications.mpi-cbg.de/Mayer_2010_4314.pdf Dian Jin; Junze Yuan. Fitting an Elephant with Four non-Zero Parameters. 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07909v1 | ||||||||
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