Sebastian,
Here's how I would encode that, assuming you have other costs for which
you have known values:
* "You should try these": use 0 (or something much lower than the other
costs).
* "Better avoid": use 1e99 (json allows scientific notation).
* "I don't know": omit (I assume there are a lot of these).
You might also consider defining additional cost types, such as:
* avoid-these: 0 means "known to be okay", 1 means "known to be horrible",
missing means "unknown".
* best-picks: 0 means "excellent choice!", omitted means either "not as
good", "known to be bad", or just "unknown". Presumably this would be a
very sparse matrix.
- Wendy
On 03/25/2013 17:27, "Sebastian Kiesel" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Wendy,
>
>how would you encode a cost map where most of the entries are
>"I don't know", some are "you should try these" and some are
>"better avoid this PID"? Reducing the number of PIDs so that
>I have only one (or very few) "I don't know"-PIDs is not an
>option because I am planning other cost maps with many details, too.
>
>Thanks
>Sebastian
>
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