On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:35:37PM -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:18:24PM -0500, Kris Coward wrote: > > > > P.S. Yes, a large part of the motivation for writing this was so that I > > could use 2 different definitions of "noise" to refer to noise as noise. > > So... given that your post is mostly _not_ signal... does that make it > mostly noise? Statistically speaking, of course. :)
Statistically? But we already have statistical noise, and I'm pretty sure that this is a third sort of noise :) > As a chemist friend of mine used to say, "Remember - if you're not part > of the solution, you're part of the precipitate." See, that's why I'm not a chemist. My reminder draws on my background in mathematics, particularly its logical foundations, and seeks to ensure that the earnest are familiar with their modus tollens by reminding them "If you're not part of the problem (or precipitate, as the case may be), you're part of the solution". Cheers, Kris -- Kris Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3 _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
