Thought Experiments (was Re: Life on Mars?)

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>>>>> "Gia" == Gia Moran <morans@execpc.com> writes:

    Gia> ----------
    >> From: Douglas Ingalls <dwi@borg.com> To:
    >> higher-fire@prairienet.org Subject: Re: Thought Experiments
    >> (was Re: Life on Mars?)  Date: Saturday, October 05, 1996 7:38
    >> p
    >> 
    RJB> I guess the real trick would be to determine the
    RJB> maneuverability matrix for the maximum likelihood point
    RJB> estimation that you came up with for each different set of
    RJB> confidence weights, and then choose
    Gia> the
    RJB> "sharpest" of the derived universal "truths".
    >>  Talk about alphabet soup :)

    Gia> I'm glad I wasn't the only one watching Bro. Brown's recent
    Gia> post fly extremely high over my head!

    Gia> In accordance with the information he provided about
    Gia> statistics and confidence levels, I can say with confidence
    Gia> that I understood fully 20% of his post.

    Gia> I'm glad some people think this way, though! It takes the
    Gia> pressure off the rest of us, now don't it?? ;-)
    Gia> hehehehehehehe....

Not off all the rest of you.  Sometimes I come home and talk like that
to my wife or daughter.  You can imagine the interesting techniques
they use to remind me I am not at work anymore...

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