Posted: Apr 06, 2010 2:15 pm
Someone wrote:
I know it isn't the 'reason', but it's far more likely to be part of a causative chain than the fact that I stepped on a wasp just now is part related (other than temporally) in some way to my thinking about your post.
Cakrit: Oh, thanks. Another person who knows how to talk about numbers but doesn't know how to use them apparently. I placed 11th on the U S A Mathematical Olympiad and attained to Associateship in the Society of Actuaries with high test scores despite diagnoses with multiple psychoses. I had the highest 9th grade score on the AHSME on the date the first magnetar was discovered. I know a lot more about this than you do. I'm not objective on it--I can't be fully--but nobody here is. I don't have the time or energy for a full discussion of all of my coincidences right now. That entails a very lengthy narrative, for one thing. I read the article you pointed to. Why don't you read its history? I'm in it.
Don't change the subject. How good you are at math has absolutely nothing to do with how you choose to use that knowledge. You could use advanced topology or elementary geometry, for all I care. If you really can't see how arbitrary your process is and you won't listen when others try to indicate its flaws, there's nothing any of us can do to help you. There's no point in having a discussion if you are already convinced you know the answer.