RE: [PHP] Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution
| From: | Andrés Robinet | Date: | Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:42:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tedd [mailto:tedd.sperling@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 6:35 PM
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> Subject: RE: [PHP] Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution
>
> At 3:42 PM -0500 12/12/07, Robert Cummings wrote:
> > > Yes, but what if my disorder was random?
> >
> >How could you prove it is random? Give me an example of something you
> >can put into disorder that doesn't use the premise of order? For
> >instance throwing a handful of sand into the air is expected to obey
> the
> >establish laws of physics. These laws of physics suggest order in the
> >universe even when we perceive disorder.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Rob.
>
> Yes, but now we're getting back to artificial rules of the mind. We
> perceive the laws of physics to work a certain way because we have
> established rules as to how they should work. But, what happens when
> they don't work? Then we change the rules. We are now at string
> theory and things still remain disordered. All our efforts to put
> order to things still fall short.
>
> Also, when we do change our rules, nature hasn't changed. Nature
> hasn't suddenly changed to our view, but rather we change our
> thinking to adapt to observation. And it's in those terms of
> observation that order and disorder of things comes about and not in
> nature.
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
>
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Ok... I guess you have too much free time to run into such a philosophical
meditation, lol. Anyway, being an existentialist and empiricist... I won't
believe in a random number until I see it, smell it, hear it, taste it and
touch it here and now! lol
Rob
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