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HES: Re: DISC--Defending Individualism

Nicholas J. Theocarakis (ntheocar at econ.uoa.gr)

Mon Jan 30 12:01:06 EST 2006

Martin C. Tangora wrote:  
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TANSTAAFL  
>   
> TANSTAAFL = There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.  
>   
> Robert Heinlein (1966) ... not Milton Friedman!  
>   
> If you Google on the phrase "no free lunch"  
> you will learn about a family of theorems in  
> computational complexity theory.  
> ("No Free Lunch theorems")  
>   
  
  
It seems that there is no such a thing as a free hunch, after all.  
  
Nicholas J. Theocarakis