{
  "id": 197875,
  "title": "Three Times I Measured Nothing",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/three-times-i-measured-nothing",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-06T00:01:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/alan_scottencinas/three-times-i-measured-nothing-n54"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Three lessons emerged from the \"Three Times I Measured Nothing\" competition. First, the public leaderboard was narrowly focused on the falling limb of the pressure data, revealing a bias in the evaluation process. Second, a diagnostic test designed to check for inconsistencies in the model's predictions proved ineffective, as it failed to falsify a hypothesis and instead reinforced an incorrect conclusion. Lastly, the competition underscored the importance of constructing and testing falsifiable hypotheses, as a diagnostic that cannot come out in favor of the hypothesis is not a true diagnostic.",
  "summary": "Builder Journal · Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) Virtual Sensor Recovery Ten times in a row I predicted what my next submission would score before I uploaded it. The worst miss was 0.0025 on a number around nineteen. I took that as confirmation that the physics underneath was correct. It was confirmation that I can do arithmetic. Two days before this competition closed I pointed a…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}