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Comment Re:Hunter S. Thompson (Score 1) 55

Amen. I owned and rode a 1977 Ducati 900ss, an ancestor of Mr. Thompson's ride. It was bullet-fast and had the turning radius of an aircraft carrier. Every time I took it out for a frolic, I was dead straight stone sober. Every. Single. Time.

But at least Thompson did not do a Jackson Pollack pavement painting. My sincere apologies if I caused you any distress.

Comment Re:A complete fail to understand (Score 1) 56

My last remark was a bit of whimsy -- I would find it amusing if an unresolved great question in computational complexity was resolved by a computer. I wasn't trying to imply anything.

As for how long it's going to take, who knows ? Fermat's Last Theorem took 358 years, and lots of very bright bulbs took a swing at it, including Gauss and Euler (although both found a bit of traction).

Comment Re:Well, test the interpretations. (Score 1) 111

Do we infer causality from phenomena that, at their core, are stochastic ? What is the nature of this "time" thing that we refer to ? Are these macro notions just a helpful mirage ? In "Word and Object", from W.V.O. Quine, it was a startling revelation to me that scientific method does not arrive at truth like a mathematical limit, but is rather a way at truth. Which fits with the saying that "all models are wrong, but some are more useful than others."

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I've never been canoeing before, but I imagine there must be just a few simple heuristics you have to remember... Yes, don't fall out, and don't hit rocks.

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