[Marxism] [Pen-l] Benoit Mandelbrot and the wildness of financial markets: SciAm

[Craig Brozefsky]

Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> writes:

> the entities are new, so all is good. When the data trips over these  
> entities and they think a few new dimensions or something is needed to  
> validate their model of the universe, they will want other new  
> entities, and evaluate them similarly.

Well, if you're gonne throw out peer review, prediction,
falsification, empiricism, and reproducability, and all other forms of
verification that differentiate math, or astrophysics from boutique
trading code development -- then yah, they're like kinda sorta maybe
similiar.

-- 
Sincerely, Craig Brozefsky              <craig at red-bean.com>