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		lutorm on May 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 52 Years and $750 Million Prove Einstein Was Right Well, true. If the noise was truly random, you couldn't model it, of course. I just meant "noise" in the sense of "apparently random variations that actually aren't random".

starwed on May 6, 2011 [–]

That's not quite true, since a small signal+random noise will certainly give you a prediction that is testable.

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