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I don’t have an easy time explaining “how” I generate a hypothesis while knowing so little - it feels like I just always have a “guess” at the answer to some topic, whether or not I even want to (though it often takes me a lot of effort to articulate the guess in words). The main thing I have to say about the “how” is that it just doesn’t matter: at this stage the hypothesis is more about setting the stage for more questions about investigation than about really trying to be right, so it seems sufficient to “just start rambling onto the page, and make any corrections/edits that my current state of knowledge already forces.”
I'm the opposite-- I have a strong hypothesis based off of what I call a "sensical, logical" line of thinking. Then I have to work at finding the wording for the questions to disprove or prove my hypothesis. That is my favorite part, though, and I always start to get distracted by this fascination I have for language. Words are so weighted and so careful, though, it's wonderful.... sigh I digress.
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The usual name for this is Fermi estimation: estimating the rough order of magnitude of an unknown quantity using information that you already know.
What is the Fermi estimation? What is the quickest way to get the information needed? What information would you need?
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Lu or Luke is their name! (Either's fine)
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I read this, and I felt it. I felt, or feel, me. I want this some times, others I want... Well, no I guess I want this all of the time. I have a voice and I love it. It may be ..too reliant(?) on weird punctuation and even weirder sentence structure. But it's me, so.. expect weird, you know?
I know someone's going to like it. In fact, I'm sure lots of someones will like it.Or at least understand it. And they'll hear me. They'll see me. They'll understand me. Because I know I'm not the only one that gets blessed with this dang.. contemplative.?, expressive, ponderous, ability-to-show-in-writing, kind of voice.
It just makes for some ugly writing, huh?
I can make it prettier and more formal, too. That will come out a lot.
I'm going to let it. I'm really going to let it, too!
Thanks, [bloggers name, shit I can't remember and can't leave this page...], for being yourself.
I've finally got the courage to practice on a platform.
Watch out, world! Watch out, web! Watch out, wide!
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