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Plots that went wrong

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There’s loads of these on https://twitter.com/accidental__aRt, here are some of mine from the past couple of years:

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The beach?
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You can never have too many violins
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A nice smooth likelihood surface
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Always good to see the zero contour
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Apply some smoothing then I’m sure it will be fine, right?
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R2 = 0.11, p < 10E-10
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  1. Let’s cram everything in to 1/10 of the space. 2) The ever so informative labels: ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, …
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Machine learning (or would we call this AI now?). Bonus: the large white bit at the bottom which I couldn’t get rid of
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Pong
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Cheap Rothko?
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Sheet metal