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draken ( draken@lemmy.villa-straylight.social )  to Memes@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

The definition of "insanity"

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The definition of "insanity"

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draken ( draken@lemmy.villa-straylight.social )  to Memes@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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  • Sol0WingPixy ( Sol0WingPixy@ttrpg.network ) 
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    Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.

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      Actually when you create a hypothesis and test it and prove it out, it is meant to be 100% repeatable by anyone following the metgod. Otherwise your method or hypothesis is wrong.

      • TheActualDevil ( TheActualDevil@sffa.community ) 
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        Right, but the reason you run the experiment repeatedly is to test the validity of the hypothesis. You’re looking for something different to happen. That’s the point behind rerunning the tests.

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          Right, but if you find a difference you alter the method or hypothesis, to get repearbility. An insane person (not neccessarily crazy person, but one that doesn’t follow sane rationalizarion) will keep repeating exact same thing.

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        But also if you keep running the compiler without changing any of the code hoping for the errors to be magically gone, you are insane. So there’s the same logic being applied to insanity in computer science

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