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 _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
