46zilzal
09-25-2007, 11:20 PM
I started with the Sartin people with their first program (strangely called Phase III which I found out later was a marketing ploy to get people to think I and II were already out there).
It was a program of velocity and compounded ratings, had a fledgling following who feedback results of it's application at track all over the U.S. and Canada.
Energy distribution, the allocation of percentages of velocity per fraction, marked the next major step in this evolving progression of ideas sparked by a very creative group of minds at the then PIRCO company in Southern California. This was truly the group genius that earmarked the Sartin method as completely unique even today. It also marked the point of schism for many of the original teaching members as Brohamer and Pizzola, amongst others, branched out with variants of the original ideas.
Minor programs called Engen and a very good one called KGEN (the kinetic generator) came next.
From these, came the next generation called Thoromation which incorporated graphic representations of each entered horse lines. A step forward in understanding the read outs.
Minor improvements (mostly cosmetic other than the idea of chaos) came with the programs Quad-rator until Synthesis came out: supposed to be a snythesis of all of the previous ideas and the aspect of having no more manual data entry.
Synthesis evolved to become the program Validator which utilized a mathematical trick (probability convergence) to get user to bet their lower choices and the program manipulated them to become closer together. This went through three iterations, each one becoming a better product than it's predecessor.
Sartin closed down his entire operation and his programmer was left "high and dry" with no way to make a living. He was contacted by a group of interested individuals, and using his years of experience along with the feedback from many testers, wrote the program Speculator, which has been a significant improvement. He mentioned to me several times that it allowed HIM to enter ideas that had been "nixed" when previous final versions were not up to him, and allowed, for the first time, his own vision of the software to come out. He died recently, but left the original computer code to two individuals.
Another, Windows based program, combining aspects of Thoromation, Energy, Synthesis, Validator and Speculator is in it's testing stages currently and, from preliminary reports, seems to be another step forward.
How did ANY of these come into being? By a honest bi-directional interaction between programmer and tester in the field. There were NO preconceived ideas. If something theoretical or marginally effective did not pan out, it was deleted. If some heretofore correlation was discovered and reported, it was embraced as yet another step forward in the ongoing evolution of ideas that are eclectic and without a requirement of where or from whom they come from.
These were made up from IDEAS. Those never stop. Many work, many don't, but in order to find out, one has to test hypotheses, not just eliminate them because they are different from the originator's vision. Once started, ideas get a life of their own.
It was a program of velocity and compounded ratings, had a fledgling following who feedback results of it's application at track all over the U.S. and Canada.
Energy distribution, the allocation of percentages of velocity per fraction, marked the next major step in this evolving progression of ideas sparked by a very creative group of minds at the then PIRCO company in Southern California. This was truly the group genius that earmarked the Sartin method as completely unique even today. It also marked the point of schism for many of the original teaching members as Brohamer and Pizzola, amongst others, branched out with variants of the original ideas.
Minor programs called Engen and a very good one called KGEN (the kinetic generator) came next.
From these, came the next generation called Thoromation which incorporated graphic representations of each entered horse lines. A step forward in understanding the read outs.
Minor improvements (mostly cosmetic other than the idea of chaos) came with the programs Quad-rator until Synthesis came out: supposed to be a snythesis of all of the previous ideas and the aspect of having no more manual data entry.
Synthesis evolved to become the program Validator which utilized a mathematical trick (probability convergence) to get user to bet their lower choices and the program manipulated them to become closer together. This went through three iterations, each one becoming a better product than it's predecessor.
Sartin closed down his entire operation and his programmer was left "high and dry" with no way to make a living. He was contacted by a group of interested individuals, and using his years of experience along with the feedback from many testers, wrote the program Speculator, which has been a significant improvement. He mentioned to me several times that it allowed HIM to enter ideas that had been "nixed" when previous final versions were not up to him, and allowed, for the first time, his own vision of the software to come out. He died recently, but left the original computer code to two individuals.
Another, Windows based program, combining aspects of Thoromation, Energy, Synthesis, Validator and Speculator is in it's testing stages currently and, from preliminary reports, seems to be another step forward.
How did ANY of these come into being? By a honest bi-directional interaction between programmer and tester in the field. There were NO preconceived ideas. If something theoretical or marginally effective did not pan out, it was deleted. If some heretofore correlation was discovered and reported, it was embraced as yet another step forward in the ongoing evolution of ideas that are eclectic and without a requirement of where or from whom they come from.
These were made up from IDEAS. Those never stop. Many work, many don't, but in order to find out, one has to test hypotheses, not just eliminate them because they are different from the originator's vision. Once started, ideas get a life of their own.