I absolutely love this series. You have done us a great service by putting all this information together in a concise and easy to understand manner.
However, please don't continue to use the courtroom analogy! It fails badly. I don't know how things are in Australia, but in the US science has very little to do with how courtrooms work. Here, the way the courts work is characterized by arbitrary decrees of authority and extreme (!!) conformation bias.
I'm a computer science major, and one thing they taught us if that you shouldn't use words like "large" when creating rules for what software does. If someone came up to me and told me they wanted software that could handle large numbers, they told me I should get them to clarify exactly what they mean by "large".
Your anecdote reminded me of the Mars Climate Orbiter which failed to establish a proper orbit when it reached Mars and, consequently, the mission failed. The flight system software was designed to use metric units of "Newtons", but the folks who were entering course directions via the software were under the impression that data was based upon the Imperial measure "Pound-force". Bye Bye orbiter and Bye-Bye $327.6 million.
John's fake darter? Oh, data!
spekonaspek 1 week ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Best informative and rational channel in youtube since qualiasoup.
cecerchio 1 month ago
I absolutely love this series. You have done us a great service by putting all this information together in a concise and easy to understand manner.
However, please don't continue to use the courtroom analogy! It fails badly. I don't know how things are in Australia, but in the US science has very little to do with how courtrooms work. Here, the way the courts work is characterized by arbitrary decrees of authority and extreme (!!) conformation bias.
OneCerebralSamurai 8 months ago 10
I noticed that a lot of these videos have noticeable red dots in them. Is this some type of a digital watermark?
HerbyIsGood 8 months ago
@HerbyIsGood This is a subliminal message for you: believe us, believe us...
r0galik 8 months ago
I'm a computer science major, and one thing they taught us if that you shouldn't use words like "large" when creating rules for what software does. If someone came up to me and told me they wanted software that could handle large numbers, they told me I should get them to clarify exactly what they mean by "large".
FatherTime89 8 months ago
@FatherTime89
Your anecdote reminded me of the Mars Climate Orbiter which failed to establish a proper orbit when it reached Mars and, consequently, the mission failed. The flight system software was designed to use metric units of "Newtons", but the folks who were entering course directions via the software were under the impression that data was based upon the Imperial measure "Pound-force". Bye Bye orbiter and Bye-Bye $327.6 million.
comingatchu 8 months ago 3