JSH: Using Usenet
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From: porky_pig_jr on 18 Jun 2010 20:54 On Jun 18, 8:49 pm, JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> wrote: [snip] > That is very important--you do not argue on Usenet to defend your > ideas!!! > > The best ideas do not need your defense. > > Like I had an idea for my own definition of mathematical proof. Want > to see it? No, unless you can argue to defend this idea. (giggle)
From: Joshua Cranmer on 18 Jun 2010 21:30 On 06/18/2010 08:49 PM, JSH wrote: > It dominates across web searches and takes the entire top 10 in > Google. THAT is a crushing domination for an idea. No. Crushing domination is your idea being repeated by other people as a good idea. If your own work is taking the top 10, that simply means that no one else is repeating it, so you probably have a not-heavily looked-for keyword. If this post made it into the top 10 for, say, "llama kerfuffle", does that mean that it's a dominating idea? All it means is that there is probably a paucity of results which just leads to the surrounding context elevating it higher into search results. > THAT is when you're heading for the top of the heap. If they can't > face your argument, but just have to delete it out and just call you > wrong, then they can't face that argument. But people can SAY > anything. No, they've just decided you've cried "Wolf!" too many times to be worth paying attention to. > And Usenet can help you get there--if you know how to use it. Usenet has a crappy signal-to-noise ratio. Which is why big ideas get published in publications that have very high signal-to-noise ratios: i.e., well-accepted peer-reviewed journals. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
From: Mark Murray on 19 Jun 2010 06:27 On 19/06/2010 01:49, JSH wrote: > With that said--it's easy to say--I have ideas that I do end up liking > regardless. Damn things can kind of grow on you. So it happens. One > such idea for me is what I usually call my optimal path algorithm. > Google: optimal path algorithm > > It only gets #2. I tend to look a little differently at ideas that > can't dominate in Google at #1. > > Like one of my most dominant ideas? prime residue axiom > > It dominates across web searches and takes the entire top 10 in > Google. THAT is a crushing domination for an idea. > > That idea does not need me to help it. It simply squashes ALL > competition. It is not a pet idea. > > It is a dominator. So, having redefined the menaing of the word "dominator", you can claim whatever you like. This doesn't change anything; you are only fooling (or convincing) yourself. Your book sales are ignored evidence. Your "star-ratings" are also ignored. Never mind; if this makes you happy, and if googling for "define mathematical proof" gives you comfort, then go for it. But expecting others to have the same beliefs about these thoughts is a little unrealistic. M -- Mark "No Nickname" Murray Notable nebbish, extreme generalist.
From: jon on 19 Jun 2010 10:30 "JSH" <jstevh(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:a3964548-ee65-43b3-95cc-305874abaa22(a)z15g2000prh.googlegroups.com... <snip> It it really just all about you ? > > James Harris
From: Mark Murray on 19 Jun 2010 10:44
On 19/06/2010 15:30, jon wrote: > "JSH"<jstevh(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:a3964548-ee65-43b3-95cc-305874abaa22(a)z15g2000prh.googlegroups.com... > > <snip> > > It it really just all about you ? Jup. Just about him. He knows he's right, others' opinions are of no value at all. He's just here to argue or brainstorm (which of the two is unclear). Usenet is rubbish anyway. There are lots of other details, but those are the salient points /du jour/. He's just "noticed" truncated logarithms (had nothing to do with me pointing this out to him, promise!), so I expect the usual cycle of 1) claim of new/important discovery 2) grandiose claims of relevance 3) counter-debate taken very personally 4) "sour grapes" statement of unimportance/irrelevance 5) go to 1 .... is about to make the transition from step 4 to 5. M -- Mark "No Nickname" Murray Notable nebbish, extreme generalist. |