Jim Dean![]() Elite ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 1059 Joined: 10/11/2012 Location: L'ville, GA ![]() |
WELL put. That's the heart of the matter. I can personally attest that Mark and Steve are at least as qualified as scientists and technicians as the good folks at Nirvana are. I saw some early versions of their work ... and I'm not too much of a slouch with Excel or math ... and it really really impressed me. This problem has so very many variables, it is what thermodynamicists (my field) describe as a "virtual open system". That is, there are too many independent variables to manage properly to do a nice clean single-goal goal-seeking analysis. There are many different solution methods. Mark and Steve took several months, as I recall, fiddling with different approaches, till they finally settled on a path that only diverged a couple more times. What they have now, I'm not privy to ... I'm sure it's certainly very very robust. But, having said that ... it's just ONE possible solution-sieve. Who's to say it, or any other method that another team might come up with, is "the best"? I'm very glad that Nirvana is keeping things open ended, rather than totally black-boxing THEIR particular "solution" (as if there were such a beastie). The plans that Ed discussed in the webinar is to offer a Pro level that allows ANYONE with coding experience the ability to develop their own "sieve" that goes far beyond OScript formulae. M&S will likely be able to port their stuff into that engine. Keith will be able to program his own approach there. And others will too, I'm sure ;~) At the same time, N is planning a very SIMPLE "click one button" approach that allows a tyro user to pick one of many Nirvana-optimized "motif" solutions. Those, in addition to the Member level with the V2 features plus more, that we have today. This all was discussed in the webinar, so I hope I'm not speaking out of turn. It sounds like a GREAT plan to me! [Edited by Jim Dean on 3/31/2014 4:58 PM] |