Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

Is an update to UMS in the cards anytime soon?

Right now I am working on proving that the models are stable and accurate.  So far 2 of the three tests have been carried out, and have proven accurate.  Once I get that done, I am going to finish building ALRA and then work on finishing FRM 4.9.  At that point, the gates open up for a lot of different things, including UMS v2.  When it will get built, I'm not sure, but it probably won't be too terribly long.

One thing I have been thinking about is that I have been trying to pack a lot into single stages and that seems to be hitting snags, at least partly because around 3 months in, the subconscious gets tired of hearing the same thing.  And I can't say as I blame it.  So I'm looking at producing big programs (UMS, LTU, etc.) as multi-stage sets again.  That means it will take longer to build, but I think that will have better results overall.  I think it would need at least 3 stages, possibly 4 or 6.  Not sure yet.  But that would seem to potentially be a better way forward for making it work, instead of trying to achieve everything all in one stage.  Of course there would also be the "+1" stage, where all the other stages are packed into one for you to use after you have stepped up to it.

But it seems to me that we should be getting better results, and I think that is probably the solution.

I'm going to try to get FRM built asap, because that's been a bottleneck for a while now, but it's a very complicated thing and I have to make sure I am using accurate modeling results.