Judson Lester wrote: > > Please forgive me if I'm being a buttinsky, but...
no prob whatsoever... [skipped great explaination] > Stefano, does this make more sense? Absolutely. It's a very good point indeed. > <aside type="RT"> > This is the (arguably correct) behavioral inverse of the focus of this > adaptive caching policy. It's been said that if the cost of using the cache > is lower, it is more likely to be used. However, it's also correct that a > more costly caching operation will be used less often. > > Of course, this presents the additional complexity (although with effort it > might become 'sophistication" :-O ) of group membership. For instance, it's > intuitively obvious that there is an age-based partition that could be made > on the invoice generator group, and that "new" invoices have a different key > that "old" invoices, and that new invoices would partake of the new-invoice > key and old invoices of the old-invoice key. Finally, what if those > partitions were fuzzy, and any invoice could be .8 new and .2 old? I don't > think that complicates the math unduly. (Can you tell I studied with a fuzzy > logic prof?) > > The natural implementation of this would be for each node of a pipeline to > have a key, but the generator be able to provide a method to specify > partitions for the reponse to a particular request and their unit-sum weight. > Thus, sample keys are the pipe-path(?) plus an optional partition, and a > specific request might partake and contribute to sampling multiple sampling > keys. > > This would be an extension to the adaptive caching with sampling groups, and > would be backwards compatible. I wonder about it's utility... But I think > Paulo's sampling groups idea has merit. > </aside> It totally agree.... I'll let your suggestions percolate thru my neurons and see what that influences my neural network... I'll come back when I have something to say on the topic (right now, I'm concentrating on Forrest!) -- Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche -------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]