Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain

Re:Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Ar... by netghost on Thursday December 31, 2015 @05:21PM (#10820032)

This is a really great interface, and cool idea.

You might consider upping the run count, or maybe narrowing your bins for the visualization. Either way, it's great to see more tools embracing probability and uncertainty like this.

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Re:Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Ar... by ozgooen on Thursday December 31, 2015 @05:26PM (#10820058)

In practice, 5000 was basically the number that wouldn't slow it down; this represented around 20-30% of the rendering time (react components were the main bottleneck, surprisingly, though I could still optimize them more).

I think that this works fine for small models, which is much of what exists now. As there are larger models, I'd eventually like to offload calculations to AWS Lambda or something similar, so we can do far more.

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Re:Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Ar... by minimaxir on Thursday December 31, 2015 @05:23PM (#10820046)

5,000 tests is more than enough for most general use cases. (i.e. data that would be able to fit into browser memory, anyways)

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