Wait I can get published by reposting math to nutrition journals? I hope the world is ready for the innovative new Guste Carlo method of integration
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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Hey sucks for her, but remember to run this one by people next time you're in a fight with anti-science crackpots. You could set the entire history of maths into a bonfire and some random nutritionist could rebuild it all tomorrow. Epistemology, man.
Just wait until you see what the field of sports medicine does!
It’s like a constant speed run of rejected statistics research.
Do nutritionists somehow not have to take calculus in undergrad (or high school, for that matter)?
They teach this at GCSE 💀
It's related to integration, even. Are they next going to tell me they worked out how to get the exact area under the curve by integrating it between two coordinates?
Yeah, it’s embarrassing, but it’s also a compliment. The Babylonians were damn smart. Independently recreating their work is still pretty impressive.
IIRC she named it not after herself, but her parents or grandparents...who of course share her name.
I’m very surprised this got published before anyone mentioned this was a well known and old technique
See? Newton and Leibniz weren't that special after all!!11
In the end, still better than cutting out the area under the curve and weighing it. Isn't that what nutritionists did before Tai?
I wouldn't have thought of weighing party off a physical model. That's really clever.
Impractical obviously, but clever.
It's just like the water displacement method for finding the volume of an irregularly-shaped object. No biggie.