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Ultimately, everything is a probabilistic model. It'd be ridiculously impractical to try to incorporate all of one's knowledge into an analytic model. Instead, we generalize as appropriate and encapsulate the rest as a random variable, sometimes called "error". Plus, God plays dice and all that.


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