From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Subject: Re: Some advice required [OT]
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 20:56:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j2ugi8FshmlU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cjsjsg1r74m5euhqmsd64lre5rc43dpf2n@4ax.com>
On 2021-12-27 19:41, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 04:29:06 -0800 (PST), Laurent
> <lutgenl@icloud.com> declaimed the following:
>
>> Why I would choose result from strain B over the result from strain
>> A.
>>
>> strain A: SSSRSS strain B: SSRRRS
>>
>> Simply counting the number of S, I and R doesn't work. ?Checksum
>> with/without weight for the column number doesn't work either.
>
> I wouldn't expect a checksum to be of any use, since the idea of
> most checksums (and CRCs) is to be able to verify that a data
> sequence has not been corrupted. Checksums don't "rank" data.
I believe that Laurent does not mean "checksum" in its usual meaning,
but a numerical "score" computed as a sum of terms multiplied by
weights. Whether such a score can solve Laurent's problem is not clear.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-27 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-27 9:21 Some advice required [OT] Laurent
2021-12-27 11:16 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-12-27 12:29 ` Laurent
2021-12-27 13:14 ` Ben Bacarisse
2021-12-27 18:24 ` Laurent
2021-12-27 19:51 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2021-12-27 20:49 ` Ben Bacarisse
2021-12-27 22:09 ` Laurent
2021-12-28 0:29 ` Ben Bacarisse
2021-12-28 7:48 ` Laurent
2021-12-28 9:05 ` Laurent
2021-12-28 12:54 ` Laurent
2021-12-28 13:57 ` Ben Bacarisse
2021-12-28 18:19 ` Laurent
2021-12-28 13:43 ` Ben Bacarisse
2021-12-28 16:49 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2021-12-29 4:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-12-27 17:41 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2021-12-27 18:56 ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
2021-12-27 19:44 ` Laurent
2021-12-28 2:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-12-28 6:02 ` Laurent
2021-12-29 3:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-12-27 17:18 ` Simon Wright
2021-12-27 18:30 ` Laurent
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