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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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rshow55 - 08:06pm Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14274 of 14284)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

None of these are mine. They didn't happen by accident:

Posts by Almarst are set out and posted separately at http://www.mrshowalter.net/PostsBy_Almarst.htm - a list of links which would take 130 pages to print.

Posts by Gisterme are set out and posted separately at http://www.mrshowalter.net/PostsBy_Gisterme.htm - which is a 32 page list of links.

If you look at the cites I linked ( to some very good articles ) - you'll see a lot of good postings by lchic and gisterme and almarst .

Cantabb , the intensity of your emotion interests me.

I'm not sure there is anything I could say that you'd agree with.

You've got a receipe for picking a fight about anything.

A Solution to Plato's Problem: The Latent Semantic Analysis Theory of Acquisition, Induction and Representation of Knowledge by Thomas K. Landauer and Susan Dumais ..... (Landauer is at the Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Dumais is now at Microsoft.)

Here is a draft of that paper, which was accepted with revisions, and published in Psychological Review , v104, n.2, 211-240, 1997 http://lsi.argreenhouse.com/lsi/papers/PSYCHREV96.html

" " . . . with respect to (correlations) supposed to allow the learning of language and other large bodies of complexly structured knowledge, domains in which there are very many facts each weakly related to very many others, effective simulation may require data sets of the same size and content as those encountered by human learners. Formally, that is because weak local constraints can combine to produce strong local effects in aggregate(p. 9).

" ". . . a particular computational arrangement is not assumed.

" " We, of course, intend no claim that the mind or brain actually computes a singular value decomposition on a perfectly remembered event-by-context matrix of its lifetime experience using the mathematical machinery of complex sparse-matrix manipulation algorithms. What we suppose is merely that the mind-brain stores and reprocessed its input in some manner that has approximately the same effect(p. 10)."

Latent Semantic Analysis works - search engines like google depend on it.

Statistics and logic are linked. Do you deny that?

In human discourse - something very similar occurs - but with much more .

http://www.mrshowalter.net/Sequential.htm didn't happen by accident. Back later.

lchic - 08:14pm Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14275 of 14284)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Task-Masters today have to be mindful of employee stress

Thinking of Nash and reviewing Showalter .... how mindful of stress was their taxpayer-funded demanding taskmaster?

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Mazza when you say WRC 'went' to Chicago ... and he's a mate of yours you say ... what was his departure spot?

WRC made allegations and wrong attributes wrt to Showalter ... which when push came to shove were rescinded --- why do you Mazza perpetuate untruths ? Go read Krugman's op-ed.

lchic - 08:17pm Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14276 of 14284)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Suggestion for Cantabb

Go read the thread from post one. Read all posts.

Catch you later .... much later ... later still ... later ...

Wake-up Cantabb ... Keep reading ....

Sometimes one wonders if Cantabb has read the thread ... ?

Preferences Ignore Cantabb

lchic - 08:19pm Oct 3, 2003 EST (# 14277 of 14284)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

RS you were saying http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.TdmqbMuPL1Y.413414@.f28e622/15984

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