Oooooookay. Do we know what time period the existing performance data was derived over, and how long that is compared to the time we have until the ship picks us up?
I’m asking because
I see an effect of Longitude on performance that resembles what you’d see on Earth if sunlight was good for performance. However, I’m nervous that this effect might be present in the existing data but change by the time our superiors evaluate our performance: if we choose locations on the day side of the planet, and then the planet rotates, then our superiors will come by and the planet will be pointed a different way.
If the existing data was gathered over months and our superiors are here tomorrow, I’d be willing to assume ‘the planet doesn’t meaningfully rotate’ and put sites at Longitudes that worked well in the existing data. But if the existing data is the performance of all those sites this morning, I’d need to find solutions that worked without expecting to benefit from Longitude effects.
The same way it does everything: in a weird, non-Euclidean manner which defies human intuition.
Oooooookay. Do we know what time period the existing performance data was derived over, and how long that is compared to the time we have until the ship picks us up?
I’m asking because
I see an effect of Longitude on performance that resembles what you’d see on Earth if sunlight was good for performance. However, I’m nervous that this effect might be present in the existing data but change by the time our superiors evaluate our performance: if we choose locations on the day side of the planet, and then the planet rotates, then our superiors will come by and the planet will be pointed a different way.
If the existing data was gathered over months and our superiors are here tomorrow, I’d be willing to assume ‘the planet doesn’t meaningfully rotate’ and put sites at Longitudes that worked well in the existing data. But if the existing data is the performance of all those sites this morning, I’d need to find solutions that worked without expecting to benefit from Longitude effects.
There are no time effects in the data; past trends can in generality be assumed to exist in the present.
(Good question!)