Max Planck’s scheinproblems
In June 1946 Max Planck spoke in the Göttingen physics colloquium. Planck was 88 years old, had received the highest […]
Wealth: redistribution and interest rates
The most interesting scientific projects are those that surprise, when the mathematics, or the code, tells us something we didn’t
Doing a Laplace
This is a bit of LML jargon that we felt is worth promoting, even though it’s terribly unfair to a
Ink, science, story-telling
Scientific theorizing is indeed about finding something reliable in the world — if we’re lucky something reliable enough to be
Winner take all
Michael Mauboussin recently re-tweeted an article by Jason Zweig in the Wall Street Journal titled “Disturbing New Facts About American