Steelman Sessions Pilot: Digital Precision in Metrology

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Pilot episode of Steelman Sessions, a new debate format from the Professor Alex Volinsky podcast. Elena steel-mans the paper 'Digital Precision in Metrology: Significant Figures and Trailing Zeros as Machine Readable Metadata' (Metrologia, 2026) — the three-layer taxonomy of digital precision loss: storage, computation, display. Marcus cross-examines like the toughest reviewer #2, then a lightning round and a verdict: accept. Paper DOI: 10.1088/1681-7575/aea165 Voices in this episode are AI-generated: Elena and Marcus.

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