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rvenkat's avatar

Curious if you are planning to cover some of the fuss about "Digital Twins" in your lectures.

Ben Recht's avatar

Is "Digital Twin" anything more than an oddly popular buzzword for simulator? I have not found any evidence to the contrary.

rvenkat's avatar

Precisely! I say it all the time and folks get all defensive and attack me---now I'll cite your comment ;)

Thanks!

John Quiggin's avatar

Projections, commonly used in economic and energy policy analysis are a particular kind of simulation, often confused with prediction

https://theconversation.com/please-no-more-projections-what-we-need-are-predictions-and-theyre-harder-126734

Hugo's avatar

What's the full citation for Zakka et al.? Thank you for yet another insightful post, Ben.

Ben Recht's avatar

Ah, it's the survey I linked earlier in the post.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08844

I should have called out Kevin by name there.

Hugo's avatar

Thanks, Ben.