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The heisenblag principle

January 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Four pillars

An update on the recent xkcd.com cartoon, which I blogged about earlier today. As FND reminded me, and as reported here and earlier here, its very existence changed the context of the numbers it represented. Given it was Randall Munroe, I guess we should call that the Heisenblag Principle.

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3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 FND // Jan 13, 2008 at 8:49 pm

    I second this motion!
    However, I might have to add that the term “the heisenblogging” has been used before

  • 2 FND // Jan 13, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    I failed the pre-submit check; “the heisenblogging” doesn’t make much sense, obviously…

  • 3 MrCopilot // Jan 13, 2008 at 11:19 pm

    Thanks for the Link.

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