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Comment OK, lets try this in 1D: (Score 3, Interesting) 303

a line:
______________________

a "ring" called "A":
__A_____A_____________

and another "ring" called "B":
__A_____A___B_____B__

lift "B" into the second dimension:
_____________B_____B__
__A_____A_____________

slide "B" across:
_____B_____B___________
__A_____A_____________

drop "B" back onto the line:
__A__B__A__B_________

"A" and "B" are now "linked" in the 1D universe.
Programming

Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C 582

An anonymous reader writes "Wondering where all that bloat comes from, causing even the classic 'Hello world' to weigh in at 11 KB? An MIT programmer decided to make a Linux C program so simple, she could explain every byte of the assembly. She found that gcc was including libc even when you don't ask for it. The blog shows how to compile a much simpler 'Hello world,' using no libraries at all. This takes me back to the days of programming bare-metal on DOS!"

Comment Correlation implies failure to falsify a theory (Score 1) 190

Someone had a causal theory that corruption was responsible for certain voting patterns. They invented a test that could perhaps falsify the theory. The test did not falsify the theory.

Is it proved? No. But the correlation (failure to falsify) makes it a reasonable thing to believe unless/until it goes down to a better theory or a better test.

The Media

Submission + - Bad Science (badscience.net)

DocDJ writes: "Ben Goldacre (who writes an excellent article in The Guardian called Bad Science, which regularly demonstrates how poor the mainstream media is at reporting science) points out the flaws in the recent reporting of research which purported to show the evolutionary basis of 'blue for boys, pink for girls'."

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