TRP on Signal/Noise issue....

[Catherine P.]

While waiting for the subway this morning, a bit tired from last night's
NYP-list Swift Hiberian/Cafe Morgador outing,  (very glad to meet those
of you who eventually found us at the mystery address, and thank you for
letting me lay my hands on The Book!), I was rereading Slow Learner and
came across the following in "Entropy":

	"'...Ambiguity. Redundance.  Irrelevance, even.  Leakage.  All
this noise.  Noise screws up your signal, makes for disorganization in
the circuit.'  
	Meatball shuffled around. 'Well, now, Saul,' he muttered, 'you're
sort of, I don't know, expecting a lot from people.  I mean, you know. 
What it is is, most of the things we say, I guess, are mostly noise.'" 
(Slow Leaner, p. 90-91)

Adding a bit noise,
Catherine


On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:58:22 -0400 doktor at primenet.com writes:
>Jay Carlson writes:
>
>>In general I've been disappointed with the overall signal to noise
>>ratio here.  Perhaps I've been hanging out with the technologists too
>>long, but at least they're pretty good at taking flames to email, not
>>quoting an entire message to add a single sentence of reply, not
>>replying to messages that it's obvious somebody else is already going 
>to
>>reply to, formatting messages nicely, usw.
>
>Disagree strongly, particularly in light of an experience I just had 
>on one
>of those lists run by technos.
>
(long snip)....
 Having just experienced a list where 
>everything is
>on-topic and nothing is interesting, the P-list feels pretty good.
>
>*sniff, getting all sentimental*  Ha!
>
>--Jimmy