On fre, 2003-10-03 at 04:17, Ian Clarke wrote:
Jonathan Howard wrote:
The current StandardNodeEstimator.estimate() is trying to calculate the
average time a node will take for any outcome.
Shouldn't it be returning the time if it succeeds + punishment for when
it fails?
It is (or
Ian Clarke wrote:
Jonathan Howard wrote:
The current StandardNodeEstimator.estimate() is trying to calculate
the average time a node will take for any outcome.
Shouldn't it be returning the time if it succeeds + punishment for
when it fails?
It is (or should be). It returns
Jonathan Howard wrote:
That shows what I say first and is dependent on (for working) as desired
tSuccess tFailure.
(pSuccess + pFailure) = 1
tSuccess ~= tFailure -
Actually no, tFailure should typically be much larger than tSuccess as
it includes the estimated time to rerequest the data from
The current StandardNodeEstimator.estimate() is trying to calculate the
average time a node will take for any outcome.
Shouldn't it be returning the time if it succeeds + punishment for when
it fails?
I'm suggesting changing
174: estimate += pSuccess * tSuccess;
to
estimate += tSuccess;
Jonathan Howard wrote:
The current StandardNodeEstimator.estimate() is trying to calculate the
average time a node will take for any outcome.
Shouldn't it be returning the time if it succeeds + punishment for when
it fails?
It is (or should be). It returns pSuccess*tSuccess + pFailure*tFailure
