I agree with (basically) all of this. I’ve been looking more into enterprise tools for QURI and have occasionally used some. As EA grows, enterprise tools make more sense for us.
I guess this seemed to me like a different topic, but I probably should have flagged this somewhere in this post.
On Guesstimate in particular, I’m very happy for other groups to use different tools (like Analytica, Causal and probabilistic programming languages. Normally when I talk to people about this, I wind up recommending other options. All that said, I think there are some areas where some smart programming efforts on our behalf could go a long way. I think the space of “monte carlo” tools is still quite small, and I’d like to see other efforts in it (like more startups).
One issue with what you mention is that I expect that managing a bunch of corporate licenses will be a pain. It wouldn’t be great if some smart people can’t see or work with the relevant information because their small team doesn’t have a license. So in some situations, it’s worth it, but if we can (cheaply) get/use open-source tools and standards, that can also be preferable.
I agree with (basically) all of this. I’ve been looking more into enterprise tools for QURI and have occasionally used some. As EA grows, enterprise tools make more sense for us.
I guess this seemed to me like a different topic, but I probably should have flagged this somewhere in this post.
On Guesstimate in particular, I’m very happy for other groups to use different tools (like Analytica, Causal and probabilistic programming languages. Normally when I talk to people about this, I wind up recommending other options. All that said, I think there are some areas where some smart programming efforts on our behalf could go a long way. I think the space of “monte carlo” tools is still quite small, and I’d like to see other efforts in it (like more startups).
One issue with what you mention is that I expect that managing a bunch of corporate licenses will be a pain. It wouldn’t be great if some smart people can’t see or work with the relevant information because their small team doesn’t have a license. So in some situations, it’s worth it, but if we can (cheaply) get/use open-source tools and standards, that can also be preferable.