Re: [Paddlewise] Risk Homeowhatsis

From: Larry Bliven <foxhill_at_shore.intercom.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:21:38 -0500
Kaos Term:

>>Injection of kaos into the computation might make  it
>> more likely to include the uncertainty that we often encounter.

> >risk value for kaos = standard deviation of all other *relevant* risk
values.
 >>hence kaos risk increases when the relevant riks values are divergent...

> >Uncertain World Rating = John's Rating + Kaos risk value.
 >>No change to the Rating Tables.

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Snipped from John's reply:

>Great idea if I can figure out how to do it using my rotten math skills.
 >Does anyone out there remember the classic chaos type of formula?
>Is it  n = n ^(1-n) or is it x --> x2 + c? Maybe neither one.

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John,

my math can be weak too, but sometimes words work.
insight into how chaos enters into *predicting* sea kayaking risk at some
*future* time from *present* conditions can be obtained by reading

http://order.ph.utexas.edu/chaos/index.html

i've gotten side tracked on chaotic music,
http://www.industrialstreet.com/chaos/Music.asp
so i haven't gotten to mathimatical formulation of chaos for sea kayaking.
maybe there's a math enriched paddler who know kaos already... any help out
there?

by the way, one of Prof Willard Pierson's  (NYU) claims to fame was
introducing statistical methods into wave analaysis... as in wave spectra.
Maybe it's time for some sea kayakers to accept kaos as a way of envisioning
how some kayaking events unfold...

bye bye bliven

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