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Subject: Re: SSDF oddity

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:38:02 10/06/01

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On October 06, 2001 at 15:56:29, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On October 05, 2001 at 20:52:36, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>I believe there is a strict equivalence between search and knowledge. They are
>>the same thing. Like energy and matter are the same thing in modern physics.
>>
>>So if there is dimishing returns from deeper searches, there is dimishing
>>returns from better knowledge.
>>
>>And this is also pure speculation of mine, but there are some facts to back up
>>this.
>>
>>
>
>            2
>We know E=MC .
>
>What is the equivalent formula for depth versus knowledge?
>
>;-)

Rating=1500+D*(10K+60-D+K*K)

D is depth and K is knowledge
;-))

It means the following:

D=10
K=1
Rating=2110

d=10
K=2
rating=2240

d=10
k=3
Rating=2390

You can see increasing returns from knowledge

similiar calculation can prove deminishing returns from depth(you are going to
get negative returns from depths if the depth is very big but I do not care
because the formula does not have to be correct for depthes that are too big to
be practical.


I was only joking but the point is that saying that  there is an eqvivalence
between depth and knowledge does not contradict increasing returns from
knowledge.


Uri



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