Re: Serious *Mistake* by Schmidthuber

From: Osher Doctorow <osher.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 18:15:46 -0700

From: Osher Doctorow osher.domain.name.hidden, Fri. Sept. 6, 2002 6:17PM

Bill Jefferys says:

< Nonsense. It's done all the time for events of low probability.

If *doing something all the time* is your reply to nonsense, then can I
assume that not doing something is your reply to *sense*? Ah well, the
subtleties of logic!

Do you really want to argue about division by 0 and near 0 denominator?
Why don't you think about if for a few days or weeks. I would hate to see
you lose so easily.

Osher Doctorow


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Jefferys" <bill.domain.name.hidden>
To: <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: Serious *Mistake* by Schmidthuber


> At 12:20 PM -0700 on 9/6/02, Osher Doctorow wrote:
>
> >Thus, not only can
> >conditional probability not model events of probability 0, but it cannot
> >even model events of probability close to 0 (Rare Events).
>
> Nonsense. It's done all the time for events of low probability.
>
> Bill
>
Received on Fri Sep 06 2002 - 18:27:36 PDT