Re: Who's Burden of Proof?

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From: Mark Dodson <dodsonm@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:48:41 -0500

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>On Friday, November 28, 2003, at 10:52 AM, Steve Petermann wrote:
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>> I know of no good designers who would
>> allow chance to be a dominant force affecting or driving their designs.
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>Hey there,
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> what about quantum computing?
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>Just thought I'd throw that in there.

Or a process called simulated annealing, which is used in geophysics to design models of the subsurface. These things use chance based upon random number generators to mutate the model looking for a better fit to the real data. This type of procedure is quite widespread and shows that designers do use chance.
Received on Fri Nov 28 18:36:23 2003