And yet, the very nature of such glitches is that they are essentially irreproducible.
The value does not stem from the creation of new structures, plant or equipment, but by the preservation of an irreproducible bounty handed down to us from previous generations.
If done correctly, every risotto will be unique, its own irreproducible concoction.
This is the tragedy of recording: engaged in a task of reproduction, you keep coming up against the irreproducible.
Slint — or "Spiderland," because the two had become interchangeable — was like that grilled-cheese sandwich bearing the face of the Virgin Mary: an unlikely and irreproducible marvel.
Both of the productions that I saw had more spark than the Met's first new shows this season, and, unlike the Lincoln Center simulcasts, they provided the irreproducible thrill of live action — what Walt Whitman once called the "liquid world" of operatic art.
Page's guitar playing was born during an era of British reverence for the American blues, but it went somewhere else entirely, drawing on acoustic English folk guitarists like Bert Jansch and on a battery of studio effects that made his work irreproducible and strange.
An English scientist named William Henry Fox Talbot had, in the meantime, invented a method for taking photographs using paper instead of a metal plate, and generating a reproducible negative — a Talbotype — rather than an irreproducible, direct positive like the daguerreotype.
In 2000, when Kong produced "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," it became the most successful foreign-language film ever in the U.S., earning a hundred and twenty-eight million dollars in theatres here, but the steadily shrinking audience for foreign films in the intervening years has made "Crouching Tiger" an irreproducible phenomenon.
Finally, Ms. Reinhart and Mr. Rogoff allowed researchers at the University of Massachusetts to look at their original spreadsheet — and the mystery of the irreproducible results was solved.
It exposed the ways, most notably the overinterpreting of statistical significance in studies with small sample sizes, that scientific findings can end up being irreproducible or, as a layman might put it, wrong.Dr Ioannidis has been waging war on sloppy science ever since, helping to develop a discipline called meta-research (ie, research about research).
