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From: dtj@sumac.cray.com (Dean Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Brand New Optimization Methods
Message-ID: <195824.25864@timbuk.cray.com>
Date: 3 Jun 91 03:07:09 GMT
References: <91151.155234EC13@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> <1991Jun02.212900.14819@convex.com>
Reply-To: dtj@sumac.cray.com (Dean Johnson)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
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In article <1991Jun02.212900.14819@convex.com>, romero@convex.com (Paco Romero) writes:
|> This fellow, EC13 from Liverpool, UKI, wrote:
|> 
|> >   This thesis explores the use of Shannon's (informational) entropy measure
|> > and Jaynes' maximum entropy criterion in the solution of multicriteria
|> > optimization problems, for Pareto set generation, and for seeking the
|> >
|> >   <80 more lines of unbearably incomprehensible verbosity>
|> > .........
|> 
|> Excuse me sir, but did anybody ask you what your thesis was about? 
|> If every student who's writing about something obtuse, of limited
|> interest, and full of incomprehensible jargon posted an abstract,
|> this newsgroup would die in days.  Please spare us next time; your
|> advisor might care, but I don't give a shit about the 
|> Minimax Entropy Principle.   How pretentious!

I actually made it through "This thesis explores" before I had a strong urge
to a) go into a coma, or b) throttle the first mathematician I saw. Can anybody
to a translation of the abstract to english? and preferably into mono-syllabic
words so that I can understand it. ;-)

	-Dean
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