I accept that this is some pedagogical half-truth, but I just don’t see how it benefits people to pretend mathematics cares about whether or not you “eliminate meaning in the data.” There’s no meta-theorem that says information in an equation has to be preserved, whatever that means.
I’m a graduate student, working on my thesis.
I accept that this is some pedagogical half-truth, but I just don’t see how it benefits people to pretend mathematics cares about whether or not you “eliminate meaning in the data.” There’s no meta-theorem that says information in an equation has to be preserved, whatever that means.