There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
-- Enrico Fermi
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Why it's impossible to measure England's coastline
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260410-why-its-impossible-to-measure-englands-coastline
#HackerNews #coastline #measurement #England #geography #science #BBC #travel
#Radiation measurements on a recent #flight I was on, it is interesting to see that immediately after takeoff, the rate drops significantly and only goes up higher again once you gain altitude. I guess it's due to the proximity to the ground and all that concrete and #rock #geology near the surface and then the #CosmicRays in the upper #atmosphere.
There was one #HighEnergy event on the next flight. Probably due to a cosmic ray.
The 2025 Trevor Levere Best Paper Prize goes to the team of the paper "The drop and the metric system: how an unruly unit survived revolutions"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00033790.2026.2636886
This is really great news and is for an excellent paper that I highly recommend reading!
Working myself in an area that has at best non-standard measurement units (at worst, some people would argue, is not measurement at all), I found this very interesting.
Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout
https://github.com/chenglou/pretext
#HackerNews #Pretext #TypeScript #library #multiline #text #measurement #layout #GitHub
Do casual #weather enthusiasts in more scientific countries use kilometers per hour or meters per second when discussing wind speed? Or setting your weather app preferences, as is my case.
I finally have my weather station on a proper mast!
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