Earlier drafts included frameworks like NPS--those were stricken, but it did make me wonder what mature might actually look like or where to look for "real world" examples.
I showed this diagram about the SI units from Wikipedia to my wife, who is a mid career professional research biologist, and she said she'd never seen something like it before and it is now her religion and she plans to put it on T-shirts and go door to door spreading the good news... Keep up the good work! #science#measurement#units
Since it's reflection and retrospective season, I'm resharing a favorite older blogpost I wrote, during the founding of the Dev Success Lab, about the role I see for applied research in tech, our relationship with our "zombie luggage," and my own personal journey to always love what I do even when it's been very difficult for the wider tech industry to understand it.
#CMSPaper 1231: It is commonly accepted that the #StandardModel is an effective theory, meaning it stops working at high energy. This #measurement uses #topquarks to test a pragmatic extension to the standard model, called standard model effective field theory (#SMEFT) assuming that more complex interactions are possible and each will change the behavior of existing particles like top quarks. And those changes can be checked (which is what this paper does)
Curiosity1: goal-directed information seeking — e.g., following a string of citations to find the source of a particular claim.
Curiosity2: exploratory information seeking — e.g., watching whatever explainer video is recommended next, even if it’s about a different question or topic.
Okay #machinist, #precision#measurement, and #tool Mastodon. I inherited a collection of tools which includes these apparently-high-precision calipers and micrometers. Not totally sure what they are but listed accuracies are 0.0001 inches. My guess is that this is worth a fair bit. Is this worth trying to sell?