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I checked out the book Ubuntu Made Easy: A Project-Based Introduction to Linux by Rickford Grant and Phil Bull (No Starch Press). With any book like this, the trick is matching it to the correct user. If you are the kind of person inclined to install the latest version of Ubuntu on your computer…
It's easy: less scientific rigor, and get rid of pesky controls.
Via Alea: the CME trading simulation game. If only it were this easy:
I suspect that in the real world, doing the opposite of what I did would be required to actually make money :)
What should a drug company do if it spends millions of dollars on a compound and it doesn't do anything? Easy:
(Click on the panel to see the whole cartoon.)
In fact, I'm surprised more pharmaceutical companies don't do this...
"If you can't accept that you're mistaken, you're not doing it at all."
I'm definitely going to reuse this line. It's so succinct and accurate, I love it.
Very good.
Is this from
http://www.despair.com/
I love demotivators. I think my particular favorite is:
"Compromise: Let's agree to respect each other's views, no matter how wrong yours may be."
That?
Is priceless.
It's not only of science; it's life too.
good one.
allow me to add in:
"if your hypothesis can't be falsified, you're doing it wrong."
and
"If all you have is a complaint that something can't be right because your beliefs say it can't, you're not doing science."
Yeah, they missed that one.
Ooh. That looks like desktop wallpaper.
I think DLC is trying to stoke up a philosophical fight.
In practice, it is difficult to falsify any one hypothesis, because there are a great many auxiliary hypotheses that could also be wrong.
They also missed "Science. It's just lots of balls joined together with sticks".
Bob O'H: no, not really. I'm no philosopher.
Uncle Dave: Cheers, though credits where due: inspiration was provided by the 'How does a scientist or doctor become a crank?' thread, the image was taken from the Materials Research Society's desktop wallpapers page, with final assembly courtesy of Big Huge Labs.
DLC: Gonna need a bigger poster generator. :)
Classic. h/t to LBRB, I was pointed towards this excellent passage from Prometheus:
That would make a good poster.
Neat site...
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/output/deck5322711.jpg
has;
Thanks for the link!
Actually I am a ASM member, thanks for the MRS link as well.
Lately I seem to have a lot of conversations in which I use the sentence, "The mark of a true scientist, or a true scholar, is that they like being proven wrong almost as much as they like being proven right, provided you do it in an interesting way."
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If your hypothesis can't be falsified, you're not just doing it wrong, you're doing it at all.