# Measuring the Right Thing
Measurement is needed to *describe* our world *quantitatively*.
Measurement gets us out of the qualitative (that building is large) to quantitative (that building is 50 meters tall)
empirically
The art of doing science and engineering
### General Thoughts
1. [Good Science is about Measurement](Good%20Science%20is%20about%20Measurement.md)
2. [Doing Good Science](Doing%20Good%20Science.md)
3. [Asking Better Questions](Asking%20Better%20Questions.md)
4. [Scientific Measurements Use Chains of Proxies](Scientific%20Measurements%20Use%20Chains%20of%20Proxies.md)
5. [Explanationless Prediction Is Impossible](Explanationless%20Prediction%20Is%20Impossible.md)
6. [Looking Under the Lamppost Because it is Brighter There](Looking%20Under%20the%20Lamppost%20Because%20it%20is%20Brighter%20There.md)
### Favorite Measurements
1. [Linear Mode Connectivity and the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis](Linear%20Mode%20Connectivity%20and%20the%20Lottery%20Ticket%20Hypothesis.pdf)
2. [Out of Model Scope](Out%20of%20Model%20Scope.md)
3. Revising the Evolutionary Computation Abstraction: Minimal Criteria Novelty Search
4. [Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics](Understanding%20Transformers%20via%20N-gram%20Statistics.pdf)
### Personal Measurements
1. [Explainability - Anomalies and Model Scope](Explainability%20-%20Anomalies%20and%20Model%20Scope.md)
2. [Backtest Uncertainty](Backtest%20Uncertainty.md)
3. [Continuous Rank Probability Score](Continuous%20Rank%20Probability%20Score.md)
4. [Critical Classification Scores](Critical%20Classification%20Scores.md)
5. Cover
1. [Cover](Cover.md)
2. [Cover (Active)](Cover%20(Active).md)
3. [Explanation of how Cover Works](Explanation%20of%20how%20Cover%20Works.md) (hedging clustering analysis )
TODO:
* KDE score approach tom used [here](https://zero-g-capital.slack.com/archives/C04ANJFNFE2/p1711129166107109)
* Overfitting sweep
* risk via constraint space
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