The same page as a "about the author" informing the curious reader of Brust's "ongoing interest in stochastics." Wtf? >From my math experience, stochastics is like stock analysis, like I remember this equation Pk= [(C-L)/(H-L)] Using the most recent close price and the high and the low from the last however many day period you want, usually 5. Then you like do some weird stuff and extrapolate or whatever, model and analyze dynamic systems of the world, like the stock market. But where would Brust dabble in stuff as such? -S -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Kronengold [mailto:mneme at io.com] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:48 PM To: dragaera at dragaera.info Subject: RE: vlad Philip Hart writes: >On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Joshua Kronengold wrote: >> I'm going to go back to reading _Sethra_ now. >Did I miss something? Oh, like maybe the date? From: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312855818/104-7892950-058 6364?v=glance#product-details ... Publisher: Tor Books; 1st edition (April 1, 2004) ... -- Joshua Kronengold (mneme at io.com) "I've been teaching |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) --^--him...to live, to breathe, to walk, to sample the /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\joy on each road, and the sorrow at each turning. |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ /-\\\I'm sorry if I kept him out too late"--Vlad Taltos '---''(_/--' (_/-'