php-general Digest 24 Feb 2008 22:00:56 - Issue 5312
Topics (messages 269988 through 270014):
Re: temporary error
269988 by: Robert Cummings
269989 by: tedd
269990 by: tedd
27 by: Zoltán Németh
Re: All Survey leading to PHP
269991 by: tedd
Re: mysql_field_name
269992 by: tedd
Re: Plant Extracts and Our Factory
269993 by: tedd
269997 by: Shawn McKenzie
Re: Question about PHP Licence and it's future!
269994 by: tedd
Re: System errno in PHP
269995 by: Michal Maras
Re: Session destruction problem
269996 by: Shawn McKenzie
Re: Shopping Carts
269998 by: Shawn McKenzie
26 by: Robert Cummings
270005 by: Bastien Koert
Re: temprorary error
270001 by: Mary Anderson
270002 by: Robert Cummings
270003 by: Zoltán Németh
270010 by: tedd
270013 by: Robert Cummings
PHPTriad and php error
270004 by: hE
270006 by: Bastien Koert
270007 by: hE
270009 by: Bastien Koert
mysql test and error
270008 by: hE
270011 by: Brady Mitchell
270012 by: Nathan Rixham
270014 by: hE
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On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 03:34 -0500, Andrés Robinet wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Robert Cummings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 2:34 AM
To: Andrés Robinet
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Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: temporary error
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 20:11 -0500, Andrés Robinet wrote:
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From: Greg Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 1:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: temporary error
On 2/23/08, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I love the book written by Carl Sagan the The Dragons of Eden -- he
has an interesting perspective on the God thing and it contains more
substance than a cute quote.
Well as long as we're quoting famous old fence-sitting agnostics, lets
not forget Sagan's best:
'If by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the
universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally
unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of
gravity.'
--
Greg Donald
http://destiney.com/
Why not? Many people believes in such a God, so he has a very high
probability
of existence, and it has taken the worst part as nobody I know of is
currently
praising and praying to him.
You sir have homework:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Thinking
LOL, I have to recognize that my previous email had some dirty tricks in it.
I was mostly being ironic. I'm actually more of an agnostic person (with some
atheism moments from time to time). So, let me clarify what I said and to
whom I said it:
*Many people believe in such a God, so he has a very high probability of
existence*:
To those who say that something exists because they believe in it. That can't
be true, since anybody can argue the opposite (something does not exist,
because they don't believe in it) and neither of them can be proved.
As both statements can't be true, we can assume there's no deterministic way
in which existence can be derived from belief. So we can propose as an
alternate hypothesis that existence is a probabilistic variable, proportional
to the number of believers, ergo, the aforementioned God has pretty good
chance of existence.
Furthermore, in order to simplify the problem we can compute the probability
of existence, in a weighted average fashion, using the metric *believer
contribution to the human race* (from now on called C), we get following
formula:
P(G) = SUM [ C(i)*X(i) ] / SUM [ C(i) ]
Were, P(G) is the *probability of existence of god G*, C(i) is the
aforementioned metric applied to person *i* and X is a binary variable, such
that:
X(i) = [*i* is a person: 1 if person *i* is a believer of god G, 0 otherwise]
We can even find joint probabilities for gods G1 and G2 and calculate all
sorts of statistic parameters. The only problem is determining C(i), that is,
a measure of the contribution of person *i* to the human race, but our team
has found a method for that. I can't get deeper into this, because I would be
in violation the NDA I have signed with NSA.
Interesting though, is that we can find gods that have more probability of
existence than an electron in the first level of energy of an hydrogen atom
(and we don't have
