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somewhere a postdoc is crying (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 136 points 8 months ago (3 children)

How many times did they remix that 42.5% before being like I'm just going to go be a clown?

[–] [email protected] 72 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There pretty much had to be a grad student getting absolutely grilled for crappy measurements when they showed the paper.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Here are my 6 measurements per datapiont, totalling 240, and here are the 137 measurements for that one spike there"

[–] iAvicenna 15 points 8 months ago

That is nothing but nature trolling us

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

That's a phase diagram, there's probably lots of cool things going on in the solid state below that line. Probably different ratio solids at each peak. 1:4 3:2 etc. The % are goofy because it is reported by weight but behaves based on count.