cookbookery
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The application of (especially mathematical) techniques learned by rote, without proper…
The application of (especially mathematical) techniques learned by rote, without proper understanding or consideration.
- In this degenerate laboratory work, in this cookbookery of a ritual of recipes, the aim is not to do an honest experiment but to get the "right" answer.
- Most of the New Math is just what the Old Math was — cookbookery. The difference is that the cookbooks are newer, more up to date — which may be a good thing, if cookbookery is what you want.
- The problem of cookbookery is not peculiar to data analysis. But the solution of concentrating upon mathematics and proof is.
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No curated loop yet for cookbookery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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