(March 13, 2014 at 9:48 am)professor Wrote: I build machines, am involved in design, and testing.
We make intensive effort to eliminate all randomness from our products.
Every machine begins with an idea and a bank of historical engineering knowledge, plus thousands of hours of development.
This is the real world.
Not the land of Academia.
Recently, one of the engineers said that a suggestion from the 6Sigma people was to take one of the bearings we are dealing with- walk it around the yard and put it back in the machine.
To test "Randomness". We all laughed at such idiocy.
Then, I thought- where would such a stupid idea come from?
Where else? From school.
Now, who is up for owning a Darwinmobile?
I don't believe you're actually too stupid to know that automobiles did not spring from the brow of engineers in their modern form; but are the result of centuries of experimentation (i.e., trial-and-error) from the first jury-rigged 'rollers' forward.
We ARE driving Darwin's car, in the sense that it has evolved over a long period of time into its present form. If engineers were omniscient, I would expect them to skip to the final product, but they have human limitations.
Your anecdote is almost surely a lie.
Try to do better.
