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Subject: Re: [M]: SMART DRIVE Training: Some Conjectures RESEND
From: PAugello@aol.com
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Fri Jul 11 03:08:45 1997

Rich:
My understanding is that corrections are _not_ replayed during UPDATE.
I base this on observation and discussions with John Piper.
I will start an experiment when I finish this, and report tomorrow. I
will first ERASE my training, and verify my 'scope's sidereal rate. Next I
will do a LEARN session with the East key pressed the entire time. I will
measure the resultant change. Then I will do an UPDATE, without touching the
guide keys. If the session in memory is averaged, point by point, with the
current session, this should results in a constant drift of half the
magnitude measured earlier. Another UPDATE with no corrections should reduce
the drift in half again. If the current session is just "inserted" into the
previous session, there should be no change.

Take care,
Peter Augello
http://members.aol.com/PAugello

In a message dated 97-07-09 01:56:18 EDT, richdave@ma.ultranet.com (Richard
G. DAVIS) writes:

<< Now, when you return to UPDATE the SMART DRIVE, the button presses you
now make on the second pass are merely inserted into the list of
previously recorded presses. The only "averaging" that occurs is what
you do visually by noting the performance of the SMART DRIVE on the
second training session, and superimposing on that performance
additional EAST/WEST corrections.
>>