I have been reading the excellent Ben Recht on scientific waste. He writes: No one likes to admit it, but we need bad science to do good science. This is beautiful rhetoric, but not all kinds of bad science are created equal. Does Recht mean… I think there is a line where bad science starts […]
Help other people to repeat your results by telling them how to use your code
When all you have is a hammer, everything sure does start to look like a nail. This is not a good thing. I’ve spent a lot of my life variously1) Falling in love with physics and physics fundamentalism (the idea that physics is the “building block” of our reality)2) Training to “think like a physicist”3) […]
As a certified prediction market enjoyer, I’ve been thinking about why people might not like prediction markets, and how we might change that. Here are my (very rough) thoughts.
Osnat Katz Moon 