There are, even in dath ilan, children who will agreeably acquiesce in doing SCIENCE! the same way everybody else does it, without carefully detailed demonstrations of exactly what grimdark dooms will befall them if they try to make up their own rules that violate the coherence constraints.

Keltham was not one of those children.

There are, even in dath ilan, children who will agreeably acquiesce in doing SCIENCE! the same way everybody else does it, without carefully detailed demonstrations of exactly what grimdark dooms will befall them if they try to make up their own rules that violate the coherence constraints.

Keltham was not one of those children.

And besides, even if you report the raw data like a sane person, people do need to know which calculations to do after they've got all the data, right?  There are some local calculations that do tesselate together neatly to global calculations, and you might as well summarize those when they exist.  Which requires you to know how to set up the kind of calculation that modularizes well, and distinguish it from calculations that don't.

There are, even in dath ilan, children who will agreeably acquiesce in doing SCIENCE! the same way everybody else does it, without carefully detailed demonstrations of exactly what grimdark dooms will befall them if they try to make up their own methodologies that violate the coherence constraints.

Keltham was not one of those children.

And besides, even if you report the raw data like a sane person, people do need to know which calculations to do after they've got all the data, right?  There are some local calculations that do tesselate together neatly to global calculations, and you might as well summarize those when they exist.  Which requires you to know how to set up the kind of calculation that modularizes well, and distinguish it from calculations that don't.

There are, even in dath ilan, children who will agreeably acquiesce in doing SCIENCE! the same way everybody else does it, without carefully detailed demonstrations of exactly what grimdark dooms will befall them if they try to make up their own methodologies that violate the coherence constraints.

Tiny Keltham was not one of those children.

And besides, even if you report the raw data like a sane person, people do need to know which calculations to do after they've got all the data, right?  There are some local calculations that do tesselate together neatly to global calculations, and you might as well summarize those when they exist.  Which requires you to know how to set up the kind of calculation that modularizes well, and distinguish it from calculations that don't.