The First Nuclear Bomb, Bayesian Statistics, and the Progress of Science

(This article was originally published at Entsophy, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.)

The yield from the first atomic bomb was classified, and might have remained so if some knucklehead hadn’t published a series of photos complete with scales and time stamps in Life magazine. This was enough to allow the physicist G. I. Taylor to quickly estimate the amount of energy released using nothing more than some […]

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