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by pixelpoet 2420 days ago
How did they use an elephant as cover image without mentioning von Neumann's famous and relevant quote: "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."

A great article on it: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/21/how-to-fit-an-elep...

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That came up in The Dream Machine! Reading it now.