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To: fhd@in*.ne*
Subject: Re: Ultimate model
From: <Christina_Young@Wa*.Me*.co*>
Cc: techdiver@opal.com
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 95 13:42:01 EST
Frank Deutschmann <fhd@in*.ne*> wrote:

>...and an important part of the release of the model
>is to indicate exactly what situations the model was validated in.
>Without
>this information, we risk applying a model to situations in which it
>makes highly precise, though inaccurate, predicitons -- with nasty
>consequences for the user.

Yes, didn't Warren Buffett say, "It is better to be approximately
right than precisely wrong"?

>I am wondering specifically the Abyss people will do to prevent this.

Didn't Chris say that Bruce Wienke is testing with doppler, and didn't
he also say that they would have access to the City Island chamber to
do testing?  I think what you're asking for is the actual testing
specs and plans!

Christina

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