At 05:47 PM 9/14/00 -0400, Marcio wrote:
>Hi, folks!
>
>I think there are two important points you guys are missing.
>
>First of all, I think that if we want to discuss something in scientific
>terms we must stick to the scientific jargon regardless of how people
>usually use a word. Otherwise we are comparing apples and oranges. Words
>such as random, chaos and homology may cause problems like that. In this
>sense, there is no association between the word "random" and the idea of
>purpose. Curiously, some people commonly use random variables to achieve
>the solution of optimization problems (e.g. Monte Carlo models).
This is exactly the point I am trying to get across. Thanks Marcio.
[...]
Brian Harper
Mechanical Engineering
Ohio State University
"Baby, I was born bawlin' and
I'm gonna bawl the rest of my life."
-- Fats Waller
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Sep 15 2000 - 19:37:03 EDT