Articles Tagged with calculation

Entertaining, clear and correct

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What is important in popular science?

It’s almost always entertaining, but you can’t count on all three.

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Sunrise, sunset

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In-between calculations

In the twilight land of Spherical Astronomy. . .

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Seeking agreement

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Another step

We propose a modification of the Scientific Method.

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Analog lessons

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Doomed ideas (III)

A different sort of lesson for this digital age.

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What if. . .?

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Counterfactuals

Asking about what might have been can be useful, but is often just a waste of time.

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The center of the universe

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A privileged position

A discredited historical myth refuses to die.

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Interpolation

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No longer useful

We don’t need to look up things in tables of numbers nowadays.

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Small perturbations

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A big subject

We describe how to do something that’s hard.

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Specialization

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Comparative advantage

How much should you be able to do, and how well?

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Unstated assumptions

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Conditional probability

The assumptions you make without noticing can change the answers you get.

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