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When you're on a jury, you have a duty to both the accused and your nation to consider evidence fairly, within Constitutional constraints. Being prevented from seeing evidence would, to me, be all the reason necessary to give a verdict of 'not guilty.'

Absence of evidence really IS evidence of absence, as proved:

http://kim.oyhus.no/AbsenceOfE...

When you're on a jury, you have a duty to both the accused and your nation to consider evidence fairly, within Constitutional constraints. Being prevented from seeing evidence would, to me, be all the reason necessary to give a verdict of 'not guilty.'

Absence of evidence really IS evidence of absence, as proved:

http://kim.oyhus.no/AbsenceOfE...

Fortunately the validity of the scientific theory of Global Climate Change doesn't rest on whether, or not, Black Parrot provides a citation for every comment he/she makes on Slashdot.

Actually, it does.
This absence of evidence is evidence of absence of validity.
And your answer is evidence of your incompetence.

But why stop at evidence? I can prove that I am right:
http://kim.oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html

absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Ah, but it is.

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http://oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html

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Lastly, an anecdote from Roar Lauritzsen about Absence of Evidence:

"Suppose you are a programmer, and you are looking for bugs in a program. At first you cannot sleep at night because you are convinced that there must be a bug somewhere, you just haven't found it yet. To find the bug, you test the program to see if you find something that doesn't work as you expected. If you found something, it would be evidence that there was a bug. If you test the program a lot, and still find no evidence of a bug, this increases your confidence that there is no bug. In other words, it counts as evidence for the absence of a bug, and you are finally able to sleep better.

After a while, your program is thoroughly tested, and you still find no evidence for a bug. You begin to suspect that there might not be a bug after all. However, if there is no bug, you will have no purpose as a programmer. You feel as if your life depends on the existence of a bug. You are now looking for the Bug that will save you. You believe that there must be a Bug, so you test your program even more thoroughly. When you still cannot find any evidence for a Bug, you start to rationalize: Although I cannot find any Bug, that does not prove that there is no Bug. You are now a true believer in the Bug." '

Then production goes live... The code goes out, a subtle race condition the tests didn't catch and never showed up on your machine shows up...

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence...

Trufax

absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Ah, but it is.

Admittedly, I think this proof assumes that the absence of evidence is not due to coverup or just plain laziness -- although one could argue that absence of evidence of coverup or laziness is evidence for their absence.

I do it even better with my Accelerated Market Research, which is based on Bayesian reasoning.

http://oyhus.no/AcceleratedMarketResearch.html

I got cooling with CO2 when I did a better experiment.
Using the Sun instead of lamps is more realistic.

http://kim.oyhus.no/CO2.html

There is nothing here but lies. The only thing you can KNOW FOR SURE is that NONE of this is true.

Plenty of absence of evidence in that story, which is evidence of absence of truth, as proved here:
http://kim.oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html

A proof that correlation is evidence of causation,
even though correlation does not imply causation:

http://kim.oyhus.no/CorrelationAndCausation.html

Lack of free climate data was in itself evidence that there was something wrong with the global warming theories.
Lack of records, source, and IPCC records are of course also evidence of something deceitful.

And for those of you that do not believe that absence of evidence is evidence of absence:
it has been proven mathematically to be true:

http://kim.oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html

Kim0

There are much better stuff than white paint for reflecting the sun light.

There are retro-reflectors, which send the sun back into space, while white paint sends most of it to the ground and clouds.

My system can even turn off the reflection, to cool off at night. It is a sun driven air conditioner, or heater, and cheap as well

http://kim.oyhus.no/SunValve/

Kim0

Here is my idea for making an extra light solar sail:

http://kim.oyhus.no/Solar_sail.html

Kim0

This should make the solar sail about 100 times lighter,
and therefore faster:

http://kim.oyhus.no/Solar_sail.html

Kim Øyhus, the inventor.

Perhaps Movable Type could benefit from the SubLCD subpixel rendering, which is free and unpatented.

http://kim.oyhus.no/SubLCD.html

PS: I do have a method for removing colour spatter, but it is not implemented yet, and it is also different from what I have seen elsewhere. Is this sufficiently important that I should implement it?

http://kim.oyhus.no/wave.html

It is a Java applet. Note the low dispersion. Try clicking on it!

In order to make this, I avoided the standard textbook methods.
They can give good waves, but at a high cost in computation and memory.

It is not standard finite differencing, since those methods introduce dispersion
and similar errors to an unnecessary degree. But it IS a finite differencing method,
and I have done variants of it with variable speed and in 3 dimensions.

Here is one with variable speed:
http://kim.oyhus.no/seismic.mpg

One of the tricks I use is to use a hexagonal grid.

Kim Øyhus, M.Sc. Physics

http://kim.oyhus.no/wave.html

It is a Java applet. Note the low dispersion. Try clicking on it!

In order to make this, I avoided the standard textbook methods.
They can give good waves, but at a high cost in computation and memory.

It is not standard finite differencing, since those methods introduce dispersion
and similar errors to an unnecessary degree. But it IS a finite differencing method,
and I have done variants of it with variable speed and in 3 dimensions.

Here is one with variable speed:
http://kim.oyhus.no/seismic.mpg

One of the tricks I use is to use a hexagonal grid.

Kim Øyhus, M.Sc. Physics

This is yet another example of peoples inability to understand even simple things.
Hence the expression "shooting oneself in the foot". The nice ting about it is that
one can pursue the same strategy against them again and again since they wont and cannot adapt.

It is quite typical for groups of people in power to be there because they share some irrational
belief, not because they are smarter, more rational, or better at making money. It is a power thing.
It is a game of exclusion, not of cooperation. Examples: Music companies, freemasons, Bush & Co,
religions, politics, investors, etc.

But then again, most people follow this pattern, even many who believe themselves to be rational.
I have found that one strong indicator of this irrationality is the inability of people to understand
that "Absence of evidence is evidence of absence." Carl Sagan understood that this is true, while
Bush & Co with their absent evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Irak, does not understand it.
More surpricing is that the "American Statistical Association" does not understand it either, and
they should, since they are statisticians.

And now, to prevent some of the bickering that always appears when this is brought out, here is my proof:

http://kim.oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html

Kim Øyhus

So when M$ do not show examples of patented Linux code,
this means that it is less likely that there is such code.
It also means that if there is patented code, there is likely less of it.

Here is a proof that absence of evidence is evidence of absence:
http://oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html

Kim0

They could just use this replacement, which is not patented:
http://oyhus.no/SubLCD.html

I really wish they would stack it in 3D to get humonguous memories, f.ex. like this:
http://memory.oyhus.no/

http://memory.oyhus.no/

By using that technique, that programmable logic could be thousands of times more powerful without increasing the space it takes.

Kim0

It should be possible to make terabytes of it, on one chip, now, by using this stacking technique:

http://memory.oyhus.no/

Kim0