Spiky Data, Means, Medians and Memes

In an earlier post I commented that in the QF72 incident the use of a geometric mean (1) instead of the arithmetic mean when calculating the aircrafts angle of attack would have reduced the severity of the subsequent pitch over. Which leads into the more general subject of what to do when the real world [...]

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What a near miss flooding incident at a french reactor plant in 1999, it’s aftermath and the subsequent Fukushima plant disaster can tell us about fault tolerance and designing for reactor safety.

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