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The Uncertainty Machine

August 22, 2017 Marc Abrahams

NIST has an uncertainty machine. This theme of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony is UNCERTAINTY.

Make of these two facts what you will.

Does the uncertainty machine have a manual. Yes, it does.

(Thanks to Arno Laesecke for bringing the machine to our attention.)

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