On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Rich Shepard spewed into the bitstream:
RS>On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Michaell Taylor wrote:
RS>
RS>> I had to assemble a Beowulf cluster to run a simulation of probabilities of
RS>> different sorts of economic events and their impact on the political
RS>> landscape. Gotta use linux if you do serious computing.
RS>>
RS>> Sorry, even the most basic mechanics is beyond me - I prefer to simulate my
RS>> world - that way you don't bang your knuckles on the engine.
RS>
RS> My wife's bachelor's degree is in economics. She hates it when I tell her
RS>that if one laid all the world's economists end to end, you'd never reach a
RS>conclusion, or that for computational economists, the real world is a
RS>special case. :-)
RS>
RS>Rich -- the quatitative ecologist.
I've heard it said that an economist is an accountant with a sense of
humor...:-)
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