Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Wednesday, September 21, 2005

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Most scientific papers are probably wrong: "Assuming that the new paper is itself correct, problems with experimental and statistical methods mean that there is less than a 50% chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true."


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Camera phones will be high-precision scanners: "New software, developed by NEC and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan, goes further than existing cellphone camera technology by allowing entire documents to be scanned simply by sweeping the phone across the page."