Steven Piantadosi of the University of Rochester has produced a simple equation with one variable that is “not novel mathematically” but can perfectly fit any set of scatterplot points.
As long as you pick your value of θ with extreme precision, this equation will provide a fit of any data, no matter how complex. Piantadosi demonstrates how this works by fitting a scatterplot of an elephant:
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Thursday, May 31, 2018
How to Draw an Elephant Using Trigonometry
This article is a big surprise to me. I would never have suspected it:
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