On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:39 PM, GURU PERF <guruperf@att.net> wrote:
> That response was jocular, not mathematical, much in the way (I believe)
> Tom's response to Jean Scott was: I teach "bad" machines the worst
> lesson of all. I stay on them.
Sorry if I missed your intended humor. But then I'm not sure what to make of:
> But for me it is a control mechanism that allows me to continually
> assess my current situation, and avoid such things as throwing good
> money after bad, beating dead horses, and the classic definition of
> Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
> different results.
Are you still joking here? Staying on a machine that has been cold
isn't throwing money after bad. And gambling by its nature is about
doing the same things and not knowing which result to expect.
i.e. the suggestion that there's even something to avoid implies that
the past results are somehow an indicator of what's to come.
Maybe it's just too subtle for me :-)
