You seem to have abandoned Ergo. What were the reasons for doing so, and what would the maximal price you’d be willing to pay (in person-consulting-hours) to keep it maintained?
I’m asking because I have worked on a tentative prototype for a library intended to make it easier to deal with forecasting datasets which, if finished, would duplicate some of the work that went into Ergo, and I was considering merging the two.
We built Ergo (a Python library for integrating model-based and judgmental forecasting) as part of our work on forecasting. In the course of this work we realized that for many forecasting questions the bottleneck isn’t forecasting infrastructure per se, but the high-quality research and reasoning that goes into creating good forecasts, so we decided to focus on that aspect.
I’m still excited about Ergo-like projects (including Squiggle!). Developing it further would be a valuable contribution to epistemic infrastructure. Ergo is an MIT-licensed open-source project so you can basically do whatever you want with it. As a small team we have to focus on our core project, but if there are signs of life from an Ergo successor (5+ regular users, say) I’d be happy to talk for a few hours about what we learned from Ergo.
You seem to have abandoned Ergo. What were the reasons for doing so, and what would the maximal price you’d be willing to pay (in person-consulting-hours) to keep it maintained?
I’m asking because I have worked on a tentative prototype for a library intended to make it easier to deal with forecasting datasets which, if finished, would duplicate some of the work that went into Ergo, and I was considering merging the two.
We built Ergo (a Python library for integrating model-based and judgmental forecasting) as part of our work on forecasting. In the course of this work we realized that for many forecasting questions the bottleneck isn’t forecasting infrastructure per se, but the high-quality research and reasoning that goes into creating good forecasts, so we decided to focus on that aspect.
I’m still excited about Ergo-like projects (including Squiggle!). Developing it further would be a valuable contribution to epistemic infrastructure. Ergo is an MIT-licensed open-source project so you can basically do whatever you want with it. As a small team we have to focus on our core project, but if there are signs of life from an Ergo successor (5+ regular users, say) I’d be happy to talk for a few hours about what we learned from Ergo.
That sounds promising! I might60% get back to you on that :-)