In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:00:57 +0100
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> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Friday 19 October 2007 00:23 : \____
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>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, 7
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>> wrote
>> on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:07:48 GMT
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>>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>>
>>>> 7 wrote:
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>> [H]omer on Thursday:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Computer Software to Predict the Unpredictable
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> .----
>>>>>>> | Amigan writes "Professor Jerzy Rozenblit at the University
>>>>>>> | of Arizona was awarded $2.2 Million to develop software to
>>>>>>> | predict the unpredictable
>>>>>
>>>>> I worked out a really clever algorithm which I intend to
>>>>> patent to predict the unpredictable.
>>>>>
>>>>> First make an unpredictable prediction. Then add 2. Put
>>>>> everything into envelopes and put in a box. Now add another
>>>>> envelope containing a predictable unpredictability. Now
>>>>> subtract 2. Now reach into the box and remove the predictable
>>>>> unpredictability envelope. And now you are left inside the box
>>>>> an envelope with your unpredictable prediction!!!!
>>>>
>>>> I think it would be easier to patent a "hanging chad" algorithm. :-)
>>>
>>> You must have mis-understood something.
>>>
>>> OK Right! I know what it is!!!
>>>
>>> To use this system properly and effectively,
>>> you must not open the letter until
>>> your predicted unpredictability has come true.
>>>
>>
>> Is there a cat involved in all this, perchance? :-)
>
> $ diff prediction reality | cat
>
I was thinking more along the lines of Schroedinger's
famous animal, but that also works. :-)
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