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I wouldn’t feel full or satisfied with such research done by other on open ended questions such as What kind of inflatable kayak should I buy? Maybe after researching, I realize that really I should get a rigid kayak instead. Such research is iterative, interactive, and some of my preferences or personal knowledge can’t be easily externalized.

Olbers' Paradox 4 years ago

too. It does act like a radiation shield, exponentially damping the distant starlight.

This is wrong, damping is not exponential but to the fourth root.

Not everything is able to be reproduced scientifically and reversed engineered. It’s not less real because of that.

You may know how to ride a bike. Can you reverse engineer and explain in an algorithmic way how to ride a bike? No. Does that invalidate the fact that you can indeed ride a bike? Of course not.

Edit: do not fixate on the bike. It was just an example. Write a symphony, create a joke, understand irony.

You are right however physicists do not multiply duration x duration but time x time. Duration is discrete and time is infinitesimal.

What’s with the obsession with CP? I agree that it’s morally wrong and should be penalized but why is it perceived as the Ultimate Crime? Why is this tool supposedly for detecting CP only and not stolen bikes for sale, bullying through SMS, etc which are also criminal offenses?

If the observed variable is “the mean temperature in a given day”, 4% can be expected to occur relatively frequently.

Anyway until we know the probability distribution, and my intuition says that it’s definitely not Normal for wide periods of time, we can’t say if it’s significant or not.