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Re:52 Years and $750 Million Prove Einstein Was Right by ars on Thursday May 05, 2011 @03:10PM (#2518558)
It's was actually systematic shift, but a periodic one. It wasn't random noise.
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Re:52 Years and $750 Million Prove Einstein Was Right by lutorm on Thursday May 05, 2011 @03:33PM (#2518642)
Well, true. If the noise was truly random, you couldn't model it, of course. I just meant "noise" in the sense of "apparently random variations that actually aren't random".
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Re:52 Years and $750 Million Prove Einstein Was Right by starwed on Friday May 06, 2011 @12:23PM (#2521405)
That's not quite true, since a small signal+random noise will certainly give you a prediction that is testable.
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