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Weaponising dark matter
Stephen Baxter's Xeelee sequence revolves around a war between baryonic and non-baryonic life forms. One memorable sequence features a p...
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Of course you can prove a negative. In one sense this can be the easiest thing in the world : your theory predicts something which doesn...
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In the last batch of simulations, we dropped a long gas stream into the gravitational potential of a cluster to see if it would get torn...
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Yesterday I removed from a certain community's spam folder a post consisting of 94 slides about some sterotypical pseudoscience theor...
Also something about p-values.
ReplyDeleteAnd grant proposals to study the effectiveness of different grant proposal workflows.
ReplyDeleteI particularly like how there are no loops back once you hit the ''computer model' stage.
ReplyDelete"Sure our model's probably wrong and has a ton of bugs! Let's get that poster cranked out and then think about a paper!"