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Some insights from Sabine Hossenfelder’s book Lost in Math
I’m reading the book Lost in Math by the famous Youtube content creator and scientist Sabine Hossenfelder.
The author shares stories around a common theme – beauty shouldn’t be an argument in science. According to Sabine Hossenfelder, scientists have the tendency to chase beautiful ideas and dismiss hacky, unnatural solutions that explain the world very well due to their ugliness. She gives the heliocentric model as an example. Scientists from the past had difficulties accepting that stars are as far as we know they are because the numbers were too large, which felt unnatural. I’m encountering this type of problems relatively often, with beauty being used as an argument for expensive ideas, for example new standards, or second systems / rewrites.
Who could’ve imagined that this is where I’ll find cues on my quest on figuring out web experimentation (yeah, I’ve not blogged about that, but maybe it’s a good moment to start). I’ll just share two quotes.
…you could go most of your life without having to confront [the results of an] experiment”
Apparently, physicists sometimes run experiments that take a really long time, like decades. For example, particle accelerators that are expecting to produce a new particle in decades, meanwhile postponing decision making and facing the realities of known models not producing the expected results. In my world, where experiments are run on web, I’ve also encountered long-running web experiments. Usually because the sample size is small or because we expect some distant future event to happen, which never comes.
“If you are an honest physicist, 99.99 percent of your ideas, even good ideas, are going to be ruled out, not by new experiments but already by inconsistency with old experiments.”
Same applies to web experimentation as well, although the share is probably not 99.99% (as it isn’t for theoretical physics either). Verifying ideas against prior experiments can filter out many of them quickly. But there’s always the problem – does that old experiment still apply even if we ran it X years ago? What if something in the setup was wrong and it works now?
This book touches my chords despite being unrelated to my work. Something in the area of process is overlapping. I don’t know why yet but I’ll keep reading.
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Hype for the Future 167/284: Town of Many, Louisiana
Overview The Town of Many is a community in and the parish seat of Sabine Parish, Louisiana, along Routes 171, 6, 175, and 1217.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/hype-for-the-future-167-284-town-of-many-louisiana/
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Hype for the Future 105B: National Forests of Texas
Introduction Within the State of Texas, a total of four (4) national forest zones are included, obviously on the eastern side of the State in which more humidity is typical. For each national forest, a distinct story is told about the State as a whole, with every particular regional divide representing cultural distinctions as well as geographic and potentially natural distinctions. National Forests Within the State of Texas, the national forests are named Sam Houston, Angelina, Davy […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/hype-for-the-future-105b-national-forests-of-texas/
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Colourful moments from across the galaxy with Sabine, Rey, and more
#StarWarsKids #StarWarsRebels #StarWars #FanthaTracks #sabine #rey #legostarwars #starwarskids
Get your fix of colour over at Star Wars Kids.
Read the whole story at the below link:
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Climate Change Can Destroy Capitalism, Finance Experts Warn
Tl;Dr insurance people say that climate change makes lots of homes uninsurable and that can lead to mortgage Crysis.
What the author of the article and Sabine didn't say is what the cost of home insurance actually mean. It means increasing risk of homes being damaged or destroyed. What is hidden behind the numbers and statistics is an actual increase in death of people, their displacement and homelessness because that's how insurances are calculated - by the probability of a tragedy.
Sabine is snarky about activists supporting climate change because destroys capitalism. Yeah, but capitalism takes the world to the grave with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVup2zwwo_E
#sabinehossenfelder #sabine #climatechange #anticapitalism #capitalism
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« NO BUY : avoir de la THUNE mais ne RIEN ACHETER... ? » (via #Sabine) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGMTb6uzsvQ
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𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗼 𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝘂𝗻 𝘇𝗲𝗹𝗳𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘄𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗸: '𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗶𝘀 𝗸𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝗽'
Velen dromen ervan, maar weinigen doen het: de ratrace verlaten om voor onbepaalde tijd de wijde wereld in te trekken. Marco Hazenbroek en Sabine Quak (allebei 47) gaven al hun zekerheden op en reizen nu rond in hun huis op...
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A Houston attorney was arrested and charged with murder this week after telling officers he accidentally shot his 20-year-old son and cremated his body, according to the Sabine County Sheriff's Office.
#News #Police #HoustonAttorney #Sabine #SabineCounty #SabineCountySheriffSOffice
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𝗦𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝘁 𝘇𝗲 𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗲-𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗱: '𝗠𝗶𝗷𝗻 𝗯𝗮𝗮𝘀 𝘇𝗲𝗶 𝗱𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗸 𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘃𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲 𝗸𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗲 𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗲'
In deze wekelijkse rubriek vertellen mensen over iets dat zij nooit meer willen meemaken, doen of laten. Deze week: meerdere keren liep Sabine Pols (39) vast op haar werk. Pas later ontdekte ze dat ze een bore-out had gehad: ze...
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Physicists take you apart one field at a time. Her knives are out. After dissecting a popular MAGAt, she takes a swipe at a bigger, more obnoxious one.
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She should VR her outfits more often, lol. 👍
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So... 4 degrees? 5?
"Why do we have so many bullshit plans?" - #Sabine #ClimateChange
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I like faster-than-light topics. Especially when physicists think, "Well, why not?" It's a special case of quantum weirdness.
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If that's the case, we should send a probe to the largest black hole we can find in the vicinity, just to learn when it might stop sending data. Perhaps never, though it will be obliterated eventually. How long will the pings take? If it's apparently hanging at the event horizon & you ping it, will it ping back, though it's obliterated in its frame of reference? Where is that darned cat?
Abrupt end into Brilliant ad. Fun physics.
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If you're up for some mysteries in the universe, here are 7 coincidences.
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This is a great video. #Sabine opens up, tells all, curses 4 times.
