Author: Pete Galati
Date: 11:50:36 07/17/00
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On July 17, 2000 at 13:52:11, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 16, 2000 at 23:36:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: >[snip] >>Is everybody from Canada intellectually challenged? Or just you? (yes, I know >>the answer so this is rhetorical). > >An interesting question, but I'm afraid the equations are not so simple. > >Dave Gomboc is from Canada and he is intelligent and insightful. I have seen >several other Canadian posters here who are interesting and well worth reading. >There are several interesting chess engines from Canada, including Faile (which >I find very interesting and well written). But there is a conundrum. Scott >Nudds is from eastern Canada, and was one of the biggest net pests to infest >news:comp.lang.c of all time. And Sean Evans (who fortunately does not post >here anymore -- wink, wink) was a world-class whinging twit and a troll of the >lowest order from (you guessed it): Eastern Canada. > >Can this "twit" effect just be ignored, or is it a real phenomena? Now, some >people might measure a couple large outliers like this and say, "Twits are >generated by Eastern Canada." but I really think the jury is still out. There >are lots of chance correlations like this -- even Democrats being elected when >there are a large number of Tarantula spiders found on clusters of imported >bananas. This could be just another of those instances. > >If we wished, we could simply make a study to discover if whinging twits (and >especially the net vermin variety) are generated by Eastern Canada. But >fortuntately, it's not an interesting enough idea for anyone to bother. Finally, a use for these super-computers that IBM keeps building and not playing Chess with. Pete
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