Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

When you say"verified ideas" mind if i ask how did you verify them? are they been tested on actual testers?

To verify this many ideas by having them tested by testers would require more than a year of time building the programs and testing them, presuming I could find enough testers and they used the programs according to directions and they didn't screw something up and then they actually kept journals and actually noticed everything necessary to tell me which one to choose.  Finding enough testers who are that reliable is almost impossible without invalidating the testing by paying them, at which point there will be those who are just in it for the money and who will ignore the program, say whatever they think I want to hear and screw up the test procedure regardless.

So we can spend a year while I get quasi-reliable data upon which to move forward, or I can just use my models and have more reliable answers in hours or days.  Which is what I do.