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S4E01 Ordinary Least Squares: Back Where It All Began

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How Big Is the Earth?

This week's episode is all about how to be intolerably self righteous. The show starts with a look at the origin of curve fitting. It goes back two thousand years, when people were trying to figure out what the shape of the earth was. Some argued it was a disc; some argued it was an infinite plane. Now we know that because planets orbit around each other in circular orbits.

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