Documenting, Documenting, Documenting
. . . Turns out to be really boring. And because I was too busy getting working software to document as I went, I’m stuck doing it after the fact and taking crazy amounts of time to get it done. So let the lesson be learned by someone else: document as you go to the extent possible.
How the Writing Gets Done
Sporadically. Read more »
Documentation and CVS
Two new goals have emerged now that I have successfully (as far as I can tell . . . ) the ABCIMA code. These are writing all the documentation and running the simulations I’ll need in order to both refine the inflater used in the Adaptive parts of the ABCIMA algorithm and to compare IMA to BCIMA to ABCIMA. So far I’d say that ABCIMA might be the best in theory, but I’m having a hard time justifying the longer run times if 20+ minutes turns out to be normal.
A Small Update: ABCIMA Seems to Work
So other than it taking forever on my lappy to get the runs done, it looks like the changes suggested last time work well when coupled with a slightly larger reserve variance. I upped it by a factor of ten because some runs had adaptations which collapsed too fast because the chain would get stuck for 50 points and thus everything would go haywire.
All in all things look better now.
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