On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, ya dummy ;-) ... I wasn't criticising the Biosphere project itself!
Ah! Fair enough, I misunderstood you, then. > I was criticising your use of this as an example of how complexity can be > overcome in an engineered system by shear intuition and trial and error. > That was the context in which it was raised by Ben. Okay, well, take any nontrivial engineered system and you'll see complexity being overcome by intuition plus trial and error. Here's a couple of very good posts by someone who designs microwave electronics for a living: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.nanotech/browse_thread/thread/ada3a83d1a284969/b713922d343e5371?lnk=st&q=#b713922d343e5371 The discussion is on CAD software, but the poster goes into a lot of detail about exactly how complexity is dealt with (essentially a mixture of avoiding it where possible and otherwise just going ahead and doing the hard crunching or prototyping work). ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
