Essay talk:On a Remark by Robert J. Marks and William A. Dembski

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I just had to crack a smile with the "so obviously..." bit. You had me following it almost fine just up until there! Scarlet A.pngpostate 12:24, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

I try to reduce the frequency of my obvious insights - e.g., by calling them elementary :-)
But in this case, it's just what we expect from a probability measure: the probability for choosing a (pure) strategy should be non-negative:
and the sum of all probabilities should be one:
What could be seen as surprising are the indices: not the usual numbers , but n-tuples.
larronsicut fur in nocte 12:59, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm just seeing ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, to be honest. Scarlet A.pngbomination 15:46, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Erratum (Theirs, not mine...)[edit]

As a reaction to the ideas of this essay, Robert J. Marks and William A. Dembski put a new erratum in their paper, which can be found in the current state here (pdf) - and my reaction to this here.

larronsicut fur in nocte 08:17, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Spot the difference[edit]

May 19, 2012
May 24, 2012

Can you spot the difference between these two screencaps of the home-page of the EvoLab? Indeed, a couple of days ago, there was a link to the subpage errata - which has conveniently disappeared of the last five days. I'm flattered. larronsicut fur in nocte 14:10, 24 May 2012 (UTC)