Re: [freenet-dev] Re: Errors in formulas

2003-12-01 Thread Toad
Just because it is not easily quantizable DOES NOT mean there is no error in it. On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 07:40:58AM -0500, Zlatin Balevsky wrote: > > >We need to think about why NGR isn't benefiting from a similar > >self-reenforcing effect. I don't think it is as simple as "its > >estimates are

[freenet-dev] Re: Errors in formulas

2003-12-01 Thread Martin Stone Davis
Ian Clarke wrote: Zlatin Balevsky wrote: The very idea of using a formula for making decisions about routing has one major flaw and that is the innacuracy of the estimators. Well, classic routing routes on the basis of the assumption that getting data from a node means that it is a good place

[freenet-dev] Re: Errors in formulas

2003-12-01 Thread Zlatin Balevsky
>We need to think about why NGR isn't benefiting from a similar >self-reenforcing effect. I don't think it is as simple as "its >estimates aren't good enough", any more than it is valid to say that >classic routing's routing decisions are perfect. If we view classical routing as ngr with a single

[freenet-dev] Re: Errors in formulas

2003-11-30 Thread Martin Stone Davis
Zlatin Balevsky wrote: The very idea of using a formula for making decisions about routing has one major flaw and that is the innacuracy of the estimators. Unless a perfect estimator is developed which will give the exact value of a given variable, any formula will produce humonguous margin of