ot-no free lunch

[James McIntosh]

At 05:57 AM 2005/12/29 -0500, teddy mills <lfeder-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-free-lunch_theorem

>http://atheism.about.com/b/a/075366.htm

>http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/
0,10801,95365,00.html

>http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?
>sid=04/03/06/139232&tid=149&tid=29&tid=31

>Wow! 

>This NFL-No Free Lunch phrase and theory has a wide variety of everyday
>uses and applications.

>I was using the NFL from animal behavior/training. 

>Then there are a lot of IT companies using NFL to describe the Linux
>open source model.  

>Then there is a No Free Lunch branch of mathematics and theory.

>The No Free Lunch theory and how it applies to all computer algorithms
>is fascinating.

>Equally fascinating is the NFL thoerem applied to biological systems
>like evolution.

>However, the argument it states NFL is not applicable to evolution,
>since evolution is not trying to reach a pre-defined goal. (sort of)

>Basically it seems, they are all related. No Free Lunch theory is
>applicable to so many everyday things.

>There is no free lunch! 

>So is this why google and all the search engines dont work as well as
>you'd like? :)

>/teddy


Consider Mr. Robert Anson Heinlein, who made famous the acronym:

TANSTAAFL !

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch !

He was best known as the author of:

Stranger in a Strange Land

which was very influential in the origin of the hippy movement.


Jim McIntosh   <jemcinto-cpI+UMyWUv+w5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org>
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