However, by making some educated guesses, one can still sometimes get a very rough gauge of which events are “more surprising” than others, in that they would lead to relatively higher answers to the second question. To explain these points it is convenient to adopt the framework of Bayes...
As astounding as it may still seem to many, Bell’s theorems do not prove nonlocality. Non separable multipartite objects exist classically, meaning w
Often, one would be content with an order of magnitude upper bound such as or where we use (or or ) to denote the bound for some constant ; sometimes one wishes to also obtain the matching lower bound, thus obtaining or where is synonymous with . Finally, one may wish to obtain...
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Worthy of esteem; admirable. Estimate A tentative evaluation or rough calculation, as of worth, quantity, or size An estimate of the damage caused by the storm. Estimable (archaic) Valuable. Estimate A statement of the approximate cost of work to be done, such as a building project or car...
This hides some of the work from the user at the cost of added complexity.If code is primary, then we accept a bit more verbosity in exchange for a simpler overall implementation. The difference between these two can easily be at least an order of magnitude in terms of the size of the...
We see the Fresnel effect in everyday life, on both shiny and rough surfaces. It’s especially clear on the water surface. When light hits water from the air, it reflects based on the angle of incidence. The Fresnel effect is everywhere. Look around and you’ll see many examples. This...
When trying to make this heuristic rigorous, it turns out (due to the rough nature of both sides of (4)) that one has to interpret the explicit formula in some suitably weak sense, for instance by testing (4) against the indicator function to obtain the formula which can in fact be ...
We estimate for these reasons:To provide an order-of-magnitude size/cost/date about the project, so we have a rough idea of the size/cost/date for planning purposes. An order-of-magnitude size means we want to invest just enough time in the estimate that we believe in the accuracy of ...
When you’re trying to do something that’s as fragile as making music, to have a couple cats pick some dude off, fire on him with blows that are out of his order of magnitude entirely, lay him out cold and then kick him for 15 minutes right in front of you, you just can’t ...