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Your papa member of tse-ka?

216.158.42.31

Posted by Victor Khomenko on July 27, 2000 at 06:23:52

In Reply to: I'll use my dacha :) posted by gnat on July 27, 2000 at 00:37:21:

You must have one BIG dacha...

***This darn problem already took a few hours of my life.
And I'm still thinking about it.

Same here.

***As I understand, your fast considerations are true only
if that center point is equal or bigger than e.

I didn't know that. I knew quickly that getting close to 1 was dangerous - 1^64 vs. 64^1 - hmmm... But I didn't see the e as the break point, of course. However both numbers being close to some center point gave me some assurance. Enough to bet my dollar.

***Otherwise
it seems to be wrong, sorry. :) I didn't calculate, but
I SWEAR that say, 2.69^2.71 is LESS than 2.71^2.69

No questions, such quick evaluation is not always going to work. But as I said - often the decisions in life call for one being "secure" rather than right. Especially when the information is not present.

Since this subject interests me, I would be very curious if someone could provide another way of doing quick estimation on a fly.

***If honestly, I'd not be able to make a quick decision for
this question. Well, I tried to evaluate it "by fingers"
first, but after a few attempts I gave up and decided just
to do all this math.

I suspect this is all in the mindset. You are obviously trained in exact science and are usually able to arrive at precise answer (and very effectively, thank you). That is great, but has a small byproduct that smart people had discovered some time ago - absence of such firm ground sometimes stops the process. But in many cases the process can not tolerate being stopped - something MUST be done and such cases call for a different approach. We all can come up with many situations like that.

I have to admit that the first time I got exposed to this concept of decision making as science I was very fascinated. Many professions - astronauts, nuclear plant operators, commandos, even government officials are trained in this. Most people never get to see it.

This resonated in me for some reason.

***I'd like to take these decision
classes, since it's my weak point INDEED. Usually I think,
rethink, check, recheck and, after a few hours of doubts,
release the answer. ;-)

Your mind is very analytical. I mentioned before that you remind me of Leon - the endless resource of wisdom. He is a tremendous scientist. He graduated from the Bonch-Bruevitch, but never actually worked in Russia as an engineer - always the guy with pages of formulas, but no circuits. When he came here he had to start working as a EE and quickly had become the best EE brain in our HP division, a guy with line of people waiting to get his advice on anything, from noise analysis to trading stock to something he had never even heard about before - gas chromatography, of all fields. He then spent time doing fancy analytical algorithms, creating several interesting things along the way. And then - he jumped into the phisycal chemstry both feet. In few short years he had become a world leading scientist in several areas of gas chromatography. When HP finally decided that they were paying him too much and that some young idiot could do all the same things at 1/3 of his pay, he retired and is now one of the most respected specialists in the world. He goes to the conferences and does consulting.

Well, maybe I am just using this opportunity as an excuse to talk about him a bit.

Anyhow, what had always surprised me in him was his uncanny ability to see the right thing through any smoke and ambiguity. In subjects that he knew nothign about. No, he was not right in every case, but if someone like him was in charge of this coutry you could be darn sure his net balance would be beyond positive. He was full of simple rule-of-thumbs that he had developed over the years and some of them sounded outright stupid when you first heard them - but you could take them all straight to the bank - they were bullet-and-rocket-proof. I am still using as many of them as I was able to remember.

Which reminds me... I need to send him $300...

Anyway, a VERY fascinating field....

***Are Vopli Vidoplyasova available on your Souvenir? Their
latest album also seems to be OK. Just spell: "Oj buli,
buli na seli".

With the archive being down, I forgot about this one. I had ordered a bunch of others, but boy, is interacting with those people funny! Like buying pork on the Odessa market - "Are you sure you want this one? Try this one instead! But I want this one! Leva, pidjak wants this one! Tell him he DOESN'T want it! He wants that one with the red cover!" and on, and on... you get the picture... She didn't have Alsu that I ordered, but had some disco remixes, and - but of course! - that was much better and I absolutely must have it!

So I will check on Vopli.

Getting too long, so see you later

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