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This is MeasuredThinking, my blog where I'll be posting about science, programming, books I've recently read, or other topics I find interesting.
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Should I clean my solar panels?
I’ve often heard that it is good to clean your solar panels once in a while, with many companies offering yearly services to come over and clean them for you. This has always been a bit of a dubious story to me; my panels still produce a lot of
The illusion of precision
Recently, in a journal club, we discussed the paper Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Mediates Axon Initial Segment Shortening: Implications for Diabetic Brain Complications (Shelby et al., 2026), and something in Figure 2C and 2D caught my eye. In the paper, they compare the length of axon initial segments (AIS), which are
Playing against a board game L'Oaf AI
I wrote about making a L'Oaf AI and learning strategies from it a week or so ago. In the article I mentioned letting readers play against the AI, and after getting permission from the game's designer, Bart de Jong, I was able to put something together
Simulating climate, air pollution, and nitrogen
Modeling in climate science is a complicated topic. These models have to do very difficult tasks - modeling climate, and are expected to inform future directions of climate change, air pollution, nitrogen deposition, and other questions that have huge consequences. The only way to deal with systems this complex is