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Mark Chu-Carroll (aka MarkCC) is a PhD Computer Scientist, who works for Google as a Software Engineer. My professional interests center on programming languages and tools, and how to improve the languages and tools that are used for building complex software systems.
Category: Bad Probability
Via the Bad Astronomer comes one of the most pathetic abuses of probability that I've ever seen. I'm simply amazed that this idiot was willing to go on television and say this. The Daily Show With Jon StewartM -...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 5:37 PM • 37 Comments •
Category: bad math
I'm sure you've all heard about the airplane that ditched in the Hudson last week. (Just 30 blocks from my office!) When it happened, after we found out more about what caused the plane to ditch, I wondered how...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:13 AM • 22 Comments •
Category: bad physics
One of the many great things about my readers is how you folks keep me up to date with any new crap that springs up, so that I don't need to spend so much time hunting down the real...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 7:15 PM • 26 Comments •
Category: bad physics
(NOTE: It appears that I really blew it with this one. I'm the bozo in this story. After lots of discussion, a few equations, and a bunch of time scribbling on paper, I'm convinced that I got this one wrong...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:07 AM • 391 Comments •
Category: Debunking Creationism
Once again, you, my readers, have come through with some really high-grade crackpottery. This one was actually sent to me by its author, but I didn't really look at it until several readers sent me the same link because...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 2:35 PM • 21 Comments •
Category: bad physics
UPDATE(9/1): In a move that, frankly, astonished me, the author of the piece that I mocked in this post has withdrawn the article, because he's recognized its errors. And he didn't just withdraw it - he came back to this...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 12:13 PM • 56 Comments •
Category: bad physics
Via several blogs, including the normally wonderful Making Light comes a link to an obnoxious Reuters' story that once again demonstrates just how scientifically and mathematically illiterate reporters are. We have yet another company basically claiming to have invented...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 12:33 PM • 83 Comments •
Category: bad physics
A reader sent me a really wonderfully wacko link. It's a fundamentalist islamic site, which tries to use relativity to argue for the divinity of the Koran. It's remarkably silly. (I also recently got a link to something similar,...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 7:10 PM • 35 Comments •
Category: bad physics
This has been mentioned elsewhere - like on the Machinist blog on Salon (where I first saw it) - but I can't resist saying something about it myself. And I'll also chip in a little bit of originality, by...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:59 PM • 55 Comments •
Category: bad physics
You might have heard the story that's been going round about the asteroid Apophis. This is an asteroid that was, briefly, considered by NASA to be a collision risk with earth. But after more observations to gather enough data...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:05 PM • 45 Comments •
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