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Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor, Latin lex parsimoniae) is the law of parsimony, economy, or succinctness. It is a principle stating that among competing hypotheses, the one which makes the fewest assumptions should be selected.
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| What is Occam's Razor? What is Occam's Razor? www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/~dkoks/Faq/General/occam.html - Web |
| Ockham's Razor Ockham's Razor www.galilean-library.org/manuscript.php?postid=43832 - Web |
| The Razor in the Toolbox: The history, use, and ab... The Razor in the Toolbox: The history, use, and abuse of Occam’s razor www.theness.com/index.php/the-razor-in-the-toolbox/ - Web |
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| NIPS 2001 Workshop "Foundations of Occam's Razor a... NIPS 2001 Workshop "Foundations of Occam's Razor and parsimony in learning" rii.ricoh.com/~stork/OccamWorkshop.html - Web |
| Simplicity at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Simplicity at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu/entries/simplicity/ - Web |
| Humorous corollary "Rev. Nocents' Toothbrush" (sci... Humorous corollary "Rev. Nocents' Toothbrush" (science vs. religion) www.rainbowtel.net/~bryants/toothbrush.htm - Web |
| Sherlock Hemlock from Sesame Street Sherlock Hemlock from Sesame Street muppet.wikia.com/.../Sherlock_Hemlock_and_the_Great_Twiddlebug_Mystery - Web |
| Economic Parsimony in Practice at Pinchtown.com Economic Parsimony in Practice at Pinchtown.com www.pinchtown.com - Web |
| short blog entry about statistical parsimony short blog entry about statistical parsimony www.stat.columbia.edu/.../against_parsimo_1.htmlA - Web |
| Disproof of parsimony as a general principle in sc... Disproof of parsimony as a general principle in science arxiv.org/abs/0812.4932 - Web |
