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[lumen]

If a prism is NOT an MD then it's irrelevant to what information theory says about MD's.  If you would like to *construct* an MD using a prisim then please explain exactly what it is you are constructing.

Sorry for not responding to your other comments they were way too vague.So you fail solving the problem in a number of ways there.  One particular glaring way is that you "log the information" for programs that don't end.  Exactly how are you determining that the program doesn't end so that you can log it's information so you can plot your curve? You've essentially embedded the same problem into your solution.  I hope this isn't standard engineering practice.

Once you determine the data including those that did not end in the selected time, then a curve could be plotted the would show the probability of those that did not end and yet might in more time.
You spend a lot of time trying to find a point that makes the solution not feasable. Most of the time I would suspect the original concept is missing most of the detail as engineers know " the devil is in the detail"

[sarkeizen]

Once you determine the data including those that did not end in the selected time

What selected time?  You're going to pick an arbitrary time and group all programs which take longer than say 5s to run will take an infinite amount of time?  Are you saying that you don't see how that fails to solve the stated problem?

then a curve could be plotted the would show the probability of those that did not end and yet might in more time.

A curve of what vs. what?  Run time vs. program length in instructions?   Let me guess, you can't see the problem there either.

You spend a lot of time trying to find a point that makes the solution not feasable.

5 seconds to point out what every year 1 CS student would know?

Most of the time I would suspect the original concept is missing most of the detail

It wasn't a lack of detail in the problem definition that made your solution wrong (this is a well known undecidable problem).  It was simple poor planning.  You suggested a solution which included the same problem you were trying to solve.  This would seem like something a high-schooler would know not to do.  That someone who spent 30 years writing code and Engineering misses that is kind of underwhelming.

I also notice you've kind of been unable to move your prism argument forward. 

[Philip Hardcastle]

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Immersed in a single reservoir of heat it will produce a continuous electrical output exceeding 1 Watt.

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This is my last post here as the admin has done nothing about the malicious libel.


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[TinselKoala]

Be sure to ask your solicitor whether or not you should put 200,000 dollars in an escrow account, before making these "bets" or challenges or offers or whatever you want to call them. You might learn something ....er..... valuable.

[sarkeizen]

I have contacted my Solicitor to meet with him on monday to file an action.

I have contacted your local Pizza Hut.  They are prepared to assuage your disappointments calorically.