Category: Simulation and Modeling
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Can This Just Be My Career?
My baseball partner-in-crime Matt sent me this awesome link to a New York Times story I missed about a month ago. If you want to know how tons of nuclear engineers spend their time, look no further. We run simulations like the one in the article. Except instead of flipping these virtual weighted coins to…
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What I Did All Day
As it turns out, only this (click to enlarge): It’s getting to be that time of the semester where scheduling and time management become both more difficult (because the time-uncertainties in end-of-semester-type activities are so much greater) and more important (because of the number and importance of said activities). Case in point: the above plot…
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…What To Leave Out
I got a hat tip from the Freakonomics blog today in reference to a recent post about the Wikipedia article for “real life.” The post accepts the premise that fantasy and reality are complements rather than substitutes (a position Contraria Sunt Complementa naturally supports), and it zeros in on Robin Hanson’s pro-complement point that “fiction…