Spherical Cow

Spherical Cow. I sometimes imagine a spherical cow model of physics talent in n dimensions where n is large and talent in each dimension increases from 0 at the origin to 1 at the boundary,. (a) observational analyses that falsely assume spherical symmetry are made more accurate by imposing a strong prior.


Spherical Cow

Has a cow (or any animal for that matter) ever been assumed spherical for any serious scientific publication? There’s an old physics joke involving a spherical cow.

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