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		boywitharupee on July 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters what's the purpose of this? is it one of those 'fun' problems to solve?

jfoutz on July 14, 2024 [–]

This quote might help - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%27s_elephant#Histo...

yes, a fun problem, but also a criticism of using to many parameters.

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