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Re: [Chicken-users] amb egg bug/confusion
From: |
Alan Post |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] amb egg bug/confusion |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:28:10 -0600 |
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:05:19PM +0100, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> On Mar 19 2012, Alan Post wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 09:18:29AM -0700, Matt Welland wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Alan Post
> >A local-to-me ecologist is interested in sitting down and
> >brainstorming, I hope something interesting comes of that.
> >
> >-Alan
>
> Alan, now I you made me curious.
>
> Which of the ecologists is going to sit down?
>
> Will the result relate more to plants?
>
> Or is the egg system going to get a layer where one can bind
> those tentative identifiers used within the implementation
> of the importing module by specifying constraints instead of
> source locations upon import?
>
> I'd love it!
>
The things I found myself wanting:
+ I wanted to know why some elements were excluded. What
constraints were filtering which plants? Basically: why
did my final group represent only a fraction of my available
plants? I wanted reporting data that I could see and play
with.
+ I wanted a constraint library. stuff like "require one of
a set to have a property with value foo." and "require every
element of this set to have the property value foo." But also
"ensure 4 out of 5 property values are present." I can see
myself developing this library if I use amb more.
+ I wanted to compare runs when I had different constraints. I'm
confused on what exactly I want to compare: mostly I think I
want to store the output along with the set of constraints in
a notebook so I can refer to previous explorations.
Any work I do here is pretty likely to be specific to my problem
domain (plants), but perhaps something general would emerge.
You've probably never heard of the ecologist, he's pretty obscure
(hehe, I think it's a student at my local uni, but I'm not sure,
we haven't met in real life.)
-Alan
--
.i ma'a lo bradi cu penmi gi'e du
Re: [Chicken-users] amb egg bug/confusion, John Cowan, 2012/03/14