eigenstate
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| Quote (oldmanintheskydidntdoit @ Jan. 23 2012,17:45) | I present to you......
dFSCI!
gpuccio:
| Quote | | I have uploaded my scatterplot of Durston’s data about sequence length and functional complexity at imageshack. Here is the link: |
It's a start! :P |
Geez, I feel like an idiot -- maybe here's the place to receive my "twenty lashes" for getting suckered by gpuccio in taking this dFSCI nonsense seriously enough to critique it on info theory terms:
[URL=http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/id-foundations-11-borels-infinite-monkeys-analysis-and-the-significance-of-the-log-reduced
-chi-metric-chi_500-is-500/comment-page-1/#comment-416763]eigenstate is a chump[/URL]
Many years ago I had an acquaintance give me the whole schpiel on homeopathy. I was not familiar with the term, and for a good bit, was keenly interested, as this acquaintance wasn't talking about the formulation of homeopathic medicines, but discussed the "proven results", and how certain medicines had been found to be effective against particular ailments, with the novel insight that "like cures like".
Well, "like cures like" didn't match anything I knew about medicine (which, admittedly, isn't very much), but I kept listening, intently. At length, I got around to asking who made the medicine.
"We do", she said. "Although you don't have to make it yourself, you can buy it premade." Whereupon I learned that the cure for "mercury poisoning" per homeopathy was a 100,000:1 water dilution of mercury.
"You mean, all this is based on... you just..."
*face palm*
I have the exact same feeling now. dFSCI makes homeopathy look grounded by comparison. So gpuccio is the "homeopathic practitioner" of the ID world. That's too bad for him, but really, it's just an embarrassing joke on me to get led down the yellow brick road that far.
I am chump, I'm sorry to report.
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