Posts by Steve

1) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : MilkyWay@Home Progress Report (Old) (Message 54511) Posted 26 May 2012 by Steve Post: Thanks, that is an interesting and clearly written report. It would also have been interesting to see comparisons between evolutionary algorithms and newton methods, etc., as applied to the MilkyWay problem.
2) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : MilkyWay@Home Progress Report (Old) (Message 54492) Posted 23 May 2012 by Steve Post: Hi, I'm new to MilkyWay@home. This is a very intriguing project. However, I notice that there have been essentially no progress reports for about two years! We volunteers might need a little stroking or maybe Seti@home would be a more satisfying place for our cycles! A real question while I'm ranting: the axes on the plots, are those log-likelihood fit statistics? It seems to me that the convergence to better fits is insignificant. Also, how do you know that you aren't heading slowing into a local minima?