On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:21:32PM -0700, Timm Murray wrote: > Anyone else around here an armchair Chaos Theorist (or even a real Chaos > Theorist)? If the simulations don't incorperate the size-bias they will be > fately flawed.
It depends what you are using the simulations for. We have primarily used them to test the scalability of the general system, I don't think the size bias would affect this, it will really effect document's longevity in the system, which we haven't measured yet. > Freenet is a natural system, and thus any simuations are > susceptable to the Butterfly Effect. Not all complex systems are chaotic. I disagree that Freenet is a chaotic system since it doesn't seem to be particularly reliant on the initial configuration of the network (a chaotic system would be). > Thanks to a little chat on IRC with > Oskar, I also learned that the most difficult part of Freenet simulations is > trying to replicate the behavior of users (who says IRC is a waste of time?) True. Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 107 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010416/ec054408/attachment.pgp>
