{"id":8,"date":"2005-10-08T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2005-10-08T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-08T19:37:00","slug":"ig-nore-this-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Ig-nore this post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen yet, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improb.com\/ig\/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2005\">2005 Ig Nobel Prizes<\/a> have been announced.  Reading through the list of previous winners, I learned two things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For weeks, I&#8217;d been wondering why the shower curtains in my new apartment billow inwards. At first I thought it was because the hot water created a pressure difference, but then I found that cold water causes the same effect. Now I know why I couldn&#8217;t figure it out: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fluent.com\/about\/news\/newsletters\/01v10i2\/a8.htm\">explanation<\/a> is sufficiently nontrivial as to have earned an Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for its discoverer.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of futzing around with Recursive Fourier Sampling, I should&#8217;ve been working on more socially-relevant CS problems, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitboost.com\/pawsense\/\">software that detects when a cat is walking across your keyboard<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen yet, the 2005 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced. Reading through the list of previous winners, I learned two things: For weeks, I&#8217;d been wondering why the shower curtains in my new apartment billow inwards. At first I thought it was because the hot water created a pressure difference, but then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-procrastination"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}