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A beautiful lie that's wrong in all the ways that don't matter yet.
means A simplified stand-in for something complicated, built to predict or represent it well enough to be useful.
from From French 'modèle', from Italian 'modello', tracing back to Latin 'modulus' — a small measure, diminutive of 'modus' meaning measure or manner. The word started as a literal small-scale version of something (a sculptor's maquette, an architect's miniature) before stretching into any stand-in built to scale — physical, mathematical, or otherwise.
- etymology
- from Latin modulus, meaning small measure
- box joke
- all models wrong, some are useful
- fashion sense
- same word, zero relation, equally overstated
- best feature
- fails predictably, which beats failing randomly