Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] predicting the future

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

You know Mike, I really wasn't asking you.

You've already hashed out, or had the opportunity to hash out your views 
on this back then the thread was active.

I'm not saying that you don't have the right to reply, far from it.  I 
guess I'm more saying, "Shut up, I was asking Stephen.  I've got your 
opinion on such subjects down in book form organized with an index, 
appendices, a bibliography, illustrations, etc.  It's even in electronic 
format for easy searching.  What bothers me is that it's several 
thousand large tightly packed pages long and consists of mostly 
repetition on about 8 central themes."

It's one book that I can almost guarantee will never need any revised 
editions to be published.

I just wonder, why do you feel you need to respond to every post (and 
with your same rubber-stamped opinion) even when the post is a question 
to a specific person who is NOT you?

Sheesh.


Mike Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 19 May 2006, Christian M. Cepel wrote:
>
> > Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> > > In 1995 I made a decision that maybe I would put God on the 
> > > backburner for a while, and work primarily on my math career.  
> > > Looking back, by far my most productive years were pre-1995.
> >
> > I know this is an old thread, but I've been putting off reading it 
> > till now. I'm curious. What was the timeline post 1995 and your 
> > productivity levels?
>
>
> I would just suggest that Stephen's plan to "put God on the backburner 
> for a while, and work primarily on [his] math career."  Implies that 
> he felt his math career wasn't going as well as he would have liked in 
> 1995.  If "putting God on the backburner" had no effect at all, we 
> should still probably see that he was doing worse after 1995 than 
> before.  Another way to think of it is the change in his emphasis on 
> God was an attempt to treat himself.  If a sick person were to look 
> back at his life, he would certainly see things like "I was a lot 
> healthier before I started taking those cancer meds," but of course we 
> blame the cancer, not the meds.
>
> I also hear that for many mathematicians, they do their very best work 
> at a young age.  As we get older, we know more, but we seem less able 
> to do surprisingly original things in areas like math and physics.
>
> Mike
>
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