Re:Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered ...
by lkbm on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:37PM
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How about this quote from Lord Kelvin:
> The beauty and clearness of the dynamical theory, which asserts heat and light to be modes of motion, is at present obscured by two clouds. I. The first came into existence with the undulatory theory of light, and was dealt with by Fresnel and Dr. Thomas Young; it involved the question, how could the earth move through an elastic solid, such as essentially is the luminiferous ether? II. The second is the Maxwell–Boltzmann doctrine regarding the partition of energy.[0]
As I understand it, the two clouds were dealt with via special relativity and quantum mechanics.
[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=YvoAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA363#v=on...
Re:Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered ...
by DrJid on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:10PM
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I think he used that quote with the year timestamp to show how silly that quote is.
Re:Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered ...
by tome on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:42PM
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Yes, and david927 is making the counterpoint that the quote is not silly now, nor was it silly then (because it was not made then).
Re:Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered ...
by FeepingCreature on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:41AM
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Or to be exact, it's not that the quote isn't silly but that it's not a quote.
Please don't use that quote. It's apocryphal; he almost certainly never said that.
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