Various Consequences

I enjoy Shipulski on Design for the short articles on innovation. They are generally not technical at all. I like to think of most of the...

This report ( pdf ) from the National academies on reliability growth is interesting. There's a lot of good stuff on design for relia...

This paper is full of great guidance for planning a campaign of experimentation, or assessing the sufficiency of a plan that already exists...

I found this article, Why is the Pentagon Dragging Its Feet on 3D Printing , by way of Small Wars Journal . It has some interesting informa...

Are we "rolling 13s" and getting thousand year storms every year ? NOAA April 2011 Precipitation Anomaly The contour plots be...

Wow, really awesome article on Climate Resistance, Trust Me, I Speak for Science . I liked these parts from the concluding paragraphs espec...

Photos of the flood control contrivances in and around Dayton. All of these were taken on 3 May 2011. But first, a little history and engin...

In a previous post we developed a flow-chart for model verification and validation (V&V) activities. One thing I noted in the update o...

This was a guest post over on Pielke's site. Dr Pielke's Honest Broker concepts resonate with me because of practical decision ...

Zen Uncertainty: Attempts to understand uncertainty are mere illusions; there is only suffering. -- WARNING: Physics Envy May Be Hazardous ...

First off, thanks to Steve Easterbrook for pointing at a new report on ensemble climate predictions . This post is some of my thoughts on t...

Sometimes the most important part of the targeting cycle is deciding what targets not to engage to achieve the effects we want. "It...

I got an early Christmas present from my favourite experimentalist. It's a book called " Chaos: A Very Short Introduction ,"...

Another instalment in the 'lack-of-climate-model-validation-bothers-me' series (see Lindzen's talk for a good intro). I've ...

I was brushing up on my maximum entropy and probability theory the other day and came across a great passage in Jaynes' book about con...