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posted September 20, 2009 07:35 PM |
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Well, as I said, I have no problem with people and their beliefs, but I object when they tell others based on that, they are wrong.
You must have misunderstood it then. ANY chance evaluation is subjective. However, the fact that expanding has more chances of being true is not. It depends how much you assign to the latter scenario. I assigned 20% based on subjective evaluation, but no matter what, it IS a positive chance, so the likelihood of expanding IS higher, as I outlined (unless you're biased, I took fair 50/50 chances).
And this isn't science, it's statistical analysis btw  (I assume you mean natural science, which deals with experiments instead).
Let me give you an example. We have looked at the Moon for a long long time. Now, what are the chances that the Moon will explode tomorrow? Let's see, at first, we would assign 50/50 to be fair, but seriously, right now, doesn't it approach like a very very low chance?
This is because we have experienced a lot of data saying otherwise (i.e Moon not exploding -- or Universe expanding!), so the chances for it are considerable higher. How "high" they are is SUBJECTIVE, but it is no DOUBT that they ARE HIGHER.
This is the basis in general-purpose compression algorithms also. That is, algorithms which are not specific/have no idea about the data (for example .gif is specialized compression algorithm). You know, stuff like .zip files.
Case closed.
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posted September 20, 2009 07:53 PM |
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PSss some people just love having the last word
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posted September 20, 2009 07:55 PM |
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PSss some people just love having the last word
Well alright, then general compression and predictive compression was born out of some guy's "religion". The impressive thing is that it works for most (non-random) files (who doesn't use zip files nowadays?). Awesome religion I have to say. 
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posted September 20, 2009 08:14 PM |
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I sense a disturbance in this post...
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posted September 20, 2009 08:39 PM |
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Case closed.
Indeed. You've just documented that you live in your very own world with your very own rules and laws.
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posted September 20, 2009 08:43 PM |
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Now I find your post a bit disturbing because my post is an analysis -- doesn't look like a law-abiding post at all (i.e do not question the law). But I suppose your reply may be considered the ultimate response in effect to anything.
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posted September 20, 2009 09:19 PM |
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Is it? I thought death respected no law...
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posted September 20, 2009 09:25 PM |
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Is it? I thought death respected no law...
pardon me but isn't that what I said?
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posted September 20, 2009 10:30 PM |
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Now I find your post a bit disturbing because my post is an analysis
   
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posted September 20, 2009 10:39 PM |
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Then I have to ask, which post are you referring to?
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posted September 21, 2009 01:02 AM |
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Is it?
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