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The Agnostic Structure Of Data Science Methods, Domenico Napoletani, Marco Panza, Daniele Struppa
The Agnostic Structure Of Data Science Methods, Domenico Napoletani, Marco Panza, Daniele Struppa
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In this paper we argue that data science is a coherent and novel approach to empirical problems that, in its most general form, does not build understanding about phenomena. Within the new type of mathematization at work in data science, mathematical methods are not selected because of any relevance for a problem at hand; mathematical methods are applied to a specific problem only by `forcing’, i.e. on the basis of their ability to reorganize the data for further analysis and the intrinsic richness of their mathematical structure. In particular, we argue that deep learning neural networks are best understood within …
Analysis, Constructions And Diagrams In Classical Geometry, Marco Panza
Analysis, Constructions And Diagrams In Classical Geometry, Marco Panza
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Greek ancient and early modern geometry necessarily uses diagrams. Among other things, these enter geometrical analysis. The paper distinguishes two sorts of geometrical analysis and shows that in one of them, dubbed “intra-confgurational” analysis, some diagrams necessarily enter as outcomes of a purely material gesture, namely not as result of a codifed constructive procedure, but as result of a free-hand drawing.
Diagrams In Intra-Configurational Analysis, Marco Panza, Gianluca Longa
Diagrams In Intra-Configurational Analysis, Marco Panza, Gianluca Longa
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In this paper we would like to attempt to shed some light on the way in which diagrams enter into the practice of ancient Greek geometrical analysis. To this end, we will first distinguish two main forms of this practice, i.e., trans-configurational and intra-configurational. We will then argue that, while in the former diagrams enter in the proof essentially in the same way (mutatis mutandis) they enter in canonical synthetic demonstrations, in the latter, they take part in the analytic argument in a specific way, which has no correlation in other aspects of classical geometry. In intra-configurational analysis, diagrams represent …