From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5098E15803E for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2024 18:00:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEEF32BC077; Sat, 6 Jan 2024 17:59:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01c.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01c.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.5]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 45C8C2BC024 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2024 17:59:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=cube.localnet) by smarthost01c.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.95) (envelope-from ) id 1rMAxh-000vep-Bk for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2024 17:59:57 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop wonky again Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2024 17:59:57 +0000 Message-ID: <13424091.uLZWGnKmhe@cube> In-Reply-To: <717a254f-03b5-4e63-836e-abebdf82e0c6@youngman.org.uk> References: <6020182.lOV4Wx5bFT@cube> <717a254f-03b5-4e63-836e-abebdf82e0c6@youngman.org.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01c-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: 6bc12fc6-a78c-423b-a9f4-53b61a315add X-Archives-Hash: 14aeed73dafc22a98eca80ed9efcfeb9 On Saturday, 6 January 2024 16:21:30 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > ... it's nothing to do with more power or whatever, it's down to simple > statistics. If genloop guesses the statistical spread wrongly, it's > going to mess up its estimates. Aren't you exaggerating genlop's complexity? I wasn't aware of any use of statistics in it, other than a simple arithmetic mean to estimate the time remaining. It certainly seems to do that, anyway. > If you have a double-peak distribution, with a large short-lived peak, > and a small long-lived peak, you can get some weird results, especially > if you have assumed a bell curve (almost always wrong) or an exponential > decay (which is generally, NOT ALWAYS, a good choice). I doubt it does any of that. -- Regards, Peter.