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On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Faustine wrote: > ...by the people you know about. >No, by understanding the scale of the problem we're talking about. There >simply isn't the data or the people to collect it. If we took the entire >GDP of the US for 10 years it wouldn't pay for it. We also don't know what >data to collect to verify the models either. >You could certainly make some dinky problem and claim to extend it, but it >would be like extending 2-body solutions to n-body - don't work. These >problems don't scale exponentially, they scale factorally (much faster). All I'm saying is that assuming analysts will somehow decide to give up on trying to solve similarly complex problems via simulation because they're "too hard" isn't exactly what I'd call a safe bet. More like a sucker's bet. >Hell, we can't even manage a few dozen wolves in Yellowstone >and you want to seriously postulate some black lab has solved the >problem...extraordinary claims... Bah, what claims? Not that anyone has, or ever would--but that if certain people put their minds to it, perhaps--just maybe--they COULD. No need to get your bloomers in a bunch over a rare speck of Kierkegaardian willed-optimism. If I were really out to assert something worth proving, I don't think I would have been quoting Willy Wonka, now would I! Oh well, stay grumpy if you want to. ~Faustine. *** He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBPFNtWfg5Tuca7bfvEQLCeQCfSH+T4LjfWs3xc6sKJmg7/Z6XpU0AnjzP 4X280MFp01m1vn6eXvltHxgF =+Gim -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
