From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fri. Sept. 6, 2002 6:17PM Bill Jefferys says:
< Nonsense. It's done all the time for events of low probability. If *doing something all the time* is your reply to nonsense, then can I assume that not doing something is your reply to *sense*? Ah well, the subtleties of logic! Do you really want to argue about division by 0 and near 0 denominator? Why don't you think about if for a few days or weeks. I would hate to see you lose so easily. Osher Doctorow ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Jefferys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:19 PM Subject: Re: Serious *Mistake* by Schmidthuber > At 12:20 PM -0700 on 9/6/02, Osher Doctorow wrote: > > >Thus, not only can > >conditional probability not model events of probability 0, but it cannot > >even model events of probability close to 0 (Rare Events). > > Nonsense. It's done all the time for events of low probability. > > Bill >