Suggested default parameter values, was Re: Hapax survival over time

[Greg Louis]

On 20040326 (Fri) at 1107:34 -0500, Greg Louis wrote:
> On 20040326 (Fri) at 0932:06 -0500, Tom Anderson wrote:

> > It may be that your entrentched theory is entirely wrong and that you
> > are trying to bend values to fit your theory.
> 
> No, I am refusing to let the theory distort what is intrinsically an
> empirical, brute-force search for values that work.  Failure to explain
> the results of such a brute-force search invalidates the theory, not
> the other way around.

I missed an important point here.  The proof of the pudding is in the
eating.  I've been using, in production, values derived from bogotune
runs, including what you called crazy and what you now call dishonest,
since last June -- and I get better results with my mail population
than you have claimed for yours.

(I was trained in science to the Ph.D. level and I made a living doing
scientific research for 17 years before switching to a career in
computing.  The accusation of bending facts to fit a postulated theory
is profoundly offensive and insulting to me, not less so because it is
made by a self-confessed amateur and is unaccompanied by any attempt at
rational justification.)

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