Hacker News Reader

This is my favorite Bad TED talk - by a physicist using the power law straight line trick; https://www.ted.com/talks/sean_gourley_on_the_mathematics_of...

It was also published in Science. Sean also founded Quid.

I thought I was taking crazy pills when I saw it. I wondered how could this guy not know better and how could no one else around him know either.

View on HN

This is Richardson 1948 shit, so Richardson had the good excuse of doing all the work while people did their computations by hand. This numbnuts is not only like 60 years late, but does not have that excuse.

Lot of people who don't like reading in complex systems, I find. Also a lot of people who aren't sufficiently cynical.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com