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Re: [OT] Predicting the unpredictable

____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Friday 19 October 2007 00:23 : \____

> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, 7
> <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  wrote
> on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:07:48 GMT
> <UOQRi.33530$c_1.32329@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>
>>> 7 wrote:
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>> [H]omer on Thursday:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Computer Software to Predict the Unpredictable
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> .----
>>>>>> | Amigan writes "Professor Jerzy Rozenblit at the University
>>>>>> | of Arizona was awarded $2.2 Million to develop software to
>>>>>> | predict the unpredictable
>>>> 
>>>> I worked out a really clever algorithm which I intend to
>>>> patent to predict the unpredictable.
>>>> 
>>>> First make an unpredictable prediction. Then add 2. Put
>>>> everything into envelopes and put in a box. Now add another
>>>> envelope containing a predictable unpredictability. Now
>>>> subtract 2. Now reach into the box and remove the predictable
>>>> unpredictability envelope. And now you are left inside the box
>>>> an envelope with your unpredictable prediction!!!!
>>> 
>>> I think it would be easier to patent a "hanging chad" algorithm.  :-)
>>
>> You must have mis-understood something.
>>
>> OK Right! I know what it is!!!
>>
>> To use this system properly and effectively,
>> you must not open the letter until
>> your predicted unpredictability has come true.
>>
> 
> Is there a cat involved in all this, perchance? :-)
 
$ diff prediction reality | cat

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