On Jun 9, 2010, at 12:58 AM, Warren Smith wrote:
And incidentally, L1 distance is not a smooth distance metric, nor
is Linfinity,
but Lp distance is smooth for any p with 1<p<infinity.
So really when I say L1 distance, it might be better, if you believe
in smoothness, to use, say L(1.1).
But it will make very little difference. The change from L2 to L1
might be important.
The change from L1 to L(1.1) will have little impact and would be more
a cosmetic than a real change.
(The suggestion to use Linfinity does not make sense to me. Just my
opinion. But in
2 dimensions only, Linfinity and L1 are the same thing if you turn
your head 45 degrees.)
the only sense is that a composite issue of abortion plus environment
might not make as much sense as two separate issues of abortion and
environment. i knew of both pro-choicers and pro-lifers that made
that issue *everything*. didn't matter if the candidate wanted to
foul (or clean up) the entire environment (in a tradeoff for
"growth"), if they were the wrong way on the abortion issue, nothing
else mattered.
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r b-j [email protected]
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