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To: PatrickHenry

People often make the mistake of using "crossstream" (inferences from a population of sequencess of a given length, sometimes called "weak") computations to model "downstream" (inferences along a given sequence, sometimes called "strong") computations. Coin tossing (and similar models) are not intuitive at all. For example, in a single game of heads and tails, it is most likely that either H or T is "ahead" most of the time. Crossings are rare.


1,554 posted on 02/02/2005 12:36:09 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
People often make the mistake of using "crossstream" (inferences from a population of sequencess of a given length, sometimes called "weak") computations to model "downstream" (inferences along a given sequence, sometimes called "strong") computations.

I knew I was getting in over my head.

1,578 posted on 02/02/2005 12:57:01 PM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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