Except, in the case of ancient Athenian 'democracy', women were excluded from any form of voting because they didn't become soldiers. And they didn't become soldiers probably because the men wanted to keep them safe to mother the soldiers. So ancient Athens was a kind of warrior-patriarchal mix that depended on voteless women and slaves.
Except that modern "democracies" excluded women's right to vote, even though millennia had passed since the invention of (radical) democracy by Athenians.
For example: "The Representation of the People Act 1918 expanded the electorate to include all men over the age of 21 and most women over the age of 30."
My reply wasn't a comparison. It was an example to show that the stereotype about "voteless women" is not meaningful.
Otherwise, you are right, ancient Athens and modern Britain are not comparable. As a relevant example, in ancient Athens there wasn't hereditary monarchy as far back as we have historical information, But in modern Britain there is.
Thanks, Panayotis! We are lucky that the invention of our ancestors were not lost in the centuries and remain until today, mostly with the original names which are now international. To name a few (in addition to stochastics): politics, democracy, theater, poetry, philosophy, episteme, ethics, logic, mathematics, physics, ...
However, our modern western civilization has recently distanced itself from this knowledge and the respective values, and is heading to decline.
Pericles: "Φιλοσοφούμεν άνευ μαλακίας".
DK's inversion for modern culture: "Μαλακιζόμεθα άνευ φιλοσοφίας".
My introduction to the term "stochastic" came in a UC Berkeley course on probability using a book by William Feller, An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, 1957. The book speaks of probability, then conditional probability, then stochastic independence. Then I attended Northwestern for a PhD in Industrial Engineering. A fellow graduate student there was Eric Denardo, who became a professor at Yale and has written on mathematical applications of stochastic search and similar topics. You may know of him.
I also read the Manhattan Contrarian by attorney Francis Menton in New York. I favorably mentioned your name in a comment to one of his climate articles. To my surprise a man named Richard Greene, who seems to know everything, took exception to my favorable note. You may know of both of them.
My career work veered off into manufacturing quality assurance, including process quality control (Shewart, Wheeler) plus multivariate regression and such which gets into correlation, causation, and prediction but not specifically stochastic processes. As such your discussions of climate and stochastic terminology is helpful for rust removal. To my mind, multivariate process control seems much like your stochastic process description. How are they different?
Thanks so much, Bill. I agree, multivariate process control is part of stochastics.
William Feller: An important figure in statistics. In my book (and many papers) I have used the term Pareto-Burr-Feller distribution for what I think is the most powerful tool to model hydroclimatic processes.
Eric Denardo, Francis Menton, Shewhart, Wheeler: I know the names but not enough about their contributions.
The other name you mentioned (RG) has been a source of laughter for me (and others) on many occasions. Not to be taken seriously...
Except, in the case of ancient Athenian 'democracy', women were excluded from any form of voting because they didn't become soldiers. And they didn't become soldiers probably because the men wanted to keep them safe to mother the soldiers. So ancient Athens was a kind of warrior-patriarchal mix that depended on voteless women and slaves.
Except that modern "democracies" excluded women's right to vote, even though millennia had passed since the invention of (radical) democracy by Athenians.
For example: "The Representation of the People Act 1918 expanded the electorate to include all men over the age of 21 and most women over the age of 30."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_United_Kingdom#20th_century
I would never compare ancient Athens to 20th century Britain. My previous Comment was in response to others' Comments about ancient Athens.
My reply wasn't a comparison. It was an example to show that the stereotype about "voteless women" is not meaningful.
Otherwise, you are right, ancient Athens and modern Britain are not comparable. As a relevant example, in ancient Athens there wasn't hereditary monarchy as far back as we have historical information, But in modern Britain there is.
The most important things originate from ancient Greek philosophers!
Very informative article, Dimitris. My congratulations!
Thanks, Panayotis! We are lucky that the invention of our ancestors were not lost in the centuries and remain until today, mostly with the original names which are now international. To name a few (in addition to stochastics): politics, democracy, theater, poetry, philosophy, episteme, ethics, logic, mathematics, physics, ...
However, our modern western civilization has recently distanced itself from this knowledge and the respective values, and is heading to decline.
Pericles: "Φιλοσοφούμεν άνευ μαλακίας".
DK's inversion for modern culture: "Μαλακιζόμεθα άνευ φιλοσοφίας".
My introduction to the term "stochastic" came in a UC Berkeley course on probability using a book by William Feller, An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, 1957. The book speaks of probability, then conditional probability, then stochastic independence. Then I attended Northwestern for a PhD in Industrial Engineering. A fellow graduate student there was Eric Denardo, who became a professor at Yale and has written on mathematical applications of stochastic search and similar topics. You may know of him.
I also read the Manhattan Contrarian by attorney Francis Menton in New York. I favorably mentioned your name in a comment to one of his climate articles. To my surprise a man named Richard Greene, who seems to know everything, took exception to my favorable note. You may know of both of them.
My career work veered off into manufacturing quality assurance, including process quality control (Shewart, Wheeler) plus multivariate regression and such which gets into correlation, causation, and prediction but not specifically stochastic processes. As such your discussions of climate and stochastic terminology is helpful for rust removal. To my mind, multivariate process control seems much like your stochastic process description. How are they different?
Thanks so much, Bill. I agree, multivariate process control is part of stochastics.
William Feller: An important figure in statistics. In my book (and many papers) I have used the term Pareto-Burr-Feller distribution for what I think is the most powerful tool to model hydroclimatic processes.
Eric Denardo, Francis Menton, Shewhart, Wheeler: I know the names but not enough about their contributions.
The other name you mentioned (RG) has been a source of laughter for me (and others) on many occasions. Not to be taken seriously...