On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 07:12  AM, Robert Covington wrote:

>> rc:
>>
>>> I think your algorithm is simply a little whacked, and drawing 
>>> conclusions
>>> from it is a bit of a stretch.  They just clump up and sort 
>>> of  v-out on
>>> the way to the edge. I will not be awarding you the Nobel 
>>> Beaks Prize by
>>> any means.
>>
>> Whacked???  Well... programs do tend to reflect their writers. I
>> could/should put more flash in it to make it look better, but the
>> idea is still there.
>>
>> As for the "bit of a stretch" maybe I see a bit further than you.
>
> Mebbe you'n don't. I have quality mental optics. Somewhere.
>

I think tedd is referring to something in the same realm as the 
study of insects...their "brains" are basically a set of 
mathematical responses to stimuli and can be predicted and 
mimicked in computer systems accurately....imagine extending the 
mathematical response results to a flock of birds.

That's how I took it anyway.  Hard to say if anyone has bothered 
to waste grant money studying birds in such a fashion and what 
useful data could be gleaned from such a thing.

-D