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Saturday, May 2, 2020

Approximations and measurement


Collateral damages, concomitant benefits, unintended consequences, serendipitous occurrences, ancillary qualities, logical obverse are applicable in all domains.


All widely and normally accepted approximations are ok as long as they serve the purpose adequately.


100% measured accuracy and/or perfection is by itself a doubtful thing.


Measurement is essential to experiment or evolve parameters or evaluate results.


However, in certain cases the very measuring tools or measurement yardsticks themselves have been proven to be arbitrary and not adequately acceptable due to some basic short comings in which has baffled later day scientific methods. 

Hyper consciousness to perfectionism may not allow one to do many things with confidence be it excessive attention to grammar or too technically correct presentation of music or cooking a perfectly tasty food.


Most routine activities we perform without looking for measuring.

We don't time the brushing, bathing, breathing intervals or cooking. Hardly anyone cooks with weighing machine near the stove by habit, repetition and practice the ingredients are mixed resulting in some edible food.

Imagine if one has to measure 3 grams salt, 10 grams chilli powder to make a sambar. What about the variable of intensity of saltiness of a particular brand of salt, spiciness of chilli etc.

How about measurements themselves?






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