Articles Tagged with calculation

time and tide

Teaching complexity

Almost every subject is complicated if you go deeply enough into it.  Where do you stop teaching?

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Moonset, Moonrise

Signs in the sky

Was it a long day, or a long night?

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The limits of knowledge

Necessary learning

Nowadays, one needs to learn software in order to learn software.

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A simpler theory (II)

Writing down the equation

We notice how mathematical notation affects scientific progress.

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Big Bang vs. Steady State

A misremembered episode

The Big Bang won.  But not the way it’s normally presented.

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Beware 2038!

Numbers and the sky

We describe a year when the rules don’t work.

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Round numbers

An even ten-thousand

We note an almost unknown milestone.

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What are the chances?

Some Bayesian statistics

Mathematics isn’t always counterintuitive.

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A good plot

This against that

What do your data really say?

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Better but harder

Simple becomes difficult

We ponder how the same scientific task gets harder with time.

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