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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_war http

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_war 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.

curuinor 10y ago
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.