It'd be nice to be able to show / enter n-dimensional histograms too, so that one can get an idea of / control the correlation between two outputs / inputs.
Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain
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#62I wasn't expecting this to go on hnews yet, but happy to take any questions!
Hey, I tried to send you something through Intercom on the site, but something was broken and it wouldn't send. Here's what I tried to write: Cool idea. Found this from a @worrydream tweet. Some comments after playing with it for a few minutes: * A bit disappointing that I can only have uniform or Gaussian distributions. At minimum I'd like a binary distribution (coin flip, probably biased coin flip). A lot of things…
I just looked at Fieldbook. The user-interface work you've done is fantastic. I'll save you from shamelessness. Here's a link to the promotional video for anyone who's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw5f6Qptufc
Give me beta access! I want to play with this thing.
Wow! The developer tools are amazing too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stwlaJGeLoM
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#63How are correlations between variables accounted for?
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#64Cool idea but doesn't render into anything useful on my S5....
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, I tried to send you something through Intercom on the site, but something was broken and it wouldn't send. Here's what I tried to write: Cool idea. Found this from a @worrydream tweet. Some comments after playing with it for a few minutes: * A bit disappointing that I can only have uniform or Gaussian distributions. At minimum I'd like a binary distribution (coin flip, probably biased coin flip). A lot of things…
Sorry to hear about Intercom, will investigate shortly. I heard someone else had a similar issue. In response to your points: - Other distribution types are the #1 most requested feature at this time. Binary distributions are possible using functions instead of the built in distributions, though obviously not intuitive. It's built using math.js, which has several random functions of different kinds. (In this case, yo…
Cool, thanks! Yeah, it was not obvious you could create new distribution types with random functions. I didn't look at functions too closely because I didn't expect distributions to be there. Makes sense, though, thanks!
Re the two-letter codes, I totally get doing the simple thing just to launch and get it out there. We face a similar problem in Fieldbook, by the way. Would be happy to explain how our solution works sometime.
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#66How are correlations between variables accounted for?
Guesstimate doesn't yet support correlations. Right now we assume everything is independent, though of course variables are often correlated with their outputs.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, I tried to send you something through Intercom on the site, but something was broken and it wouldn't send. Here's what I tried to write: Cool idea. Found this from a @worrydream tweet. Some comments after playing with it for a few minutes: * A bit disappointing that I can only have uniform or Gaussian distributions. At minimum I'd like a binary distribution (coin flip, probably biased coin flip). A lot of things…
I just looked at Fieldbook. The user-interface work you've done is fantastic . I'll save you from shamelessness. Here's a link to the promotional video for anyone who's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw5f6Qptufc Give me beta access! I want to play with this thing. Wow! The developer tools are amazing too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stwlaJGeLoM
Thanks! We were on Show HN not long ago, if you use the link there you can get beta access now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10752570
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#68Cool idea but doesn't render into anything useful on my S5....
Thanks for letting me know.
It's definitely not mobile compatible yet. I think making it viewable on mobile devices soon is doable. Making them easily editable will be much harder / require a different interface.
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#69Relevant—Uncertain: A First-Order Type for Uncertain Data (Microsoft Research)
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/208236/asplos077-bornholt...
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#70It seems that using montecarlo in excel is apparently pretty commonm, but I'm not sure if it can be done without addons.