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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