Address sampling

[jonjunduan]

Add a qmd file to do the sampling process.

[lindsay-fredrick]

Hey @jonjunduan - I see that you've added a qmd, as well as all of the associated html/css files that get produced when you render a qmd file. Do you think you could remove all the extra html related files, and then add them to the gitignore? (I think it's the html file, as well as the Address_sampling_files folder). Typically we don't want rendered final content in github (not only because we don't want report stuff in github, but also because it makes a PR super messy when all those files get accidentally included).

[thister]

There are two .gitignores now -- one in the home folder and another in /src. Is this desirable?

[lindsay-fredrick]

There are two .gitignores now -- one in the home folder and another in /src. Is this desirable?

It's okay to have more than one, sometimes it's just easier to have one directly in a folder to ignore things there.

[thister]

Okay - good to know there are different strategies to ignore things (I wish this generalized to life).

Next question: What is the "ultimate purpose" of this .qmd file? I ask because there are, for example, some somewhat minor formatting issues in the text - should I address them? Or do we mostly just care about the code?

[jonjunduan]

Okay - good to know there are different strategies to ignore things (I wish this generalized to life).

Next question: What is the "ultimate purpose" of this .qmd file? I ask because there are, for example, some somewhat minor formatting issues in the text - should I address them? Or do we mostly just care about the code?

Both are needed, but the key goal is to verify the approach to create good samples for the remoteness calculation. We may also need to find the best parameters in the sampling process.

[thister]

Okay - good to know there are different strategies to ignore things (I wish this generalized to life).
Next question: What is the "ultimate purpose" of this .qmd file? I ask because there are, for example, some somewhat minor formatting issues in the text - should I address them? Or do we mostly just care about the code?

Both are needed, but the key goal is to verify the approach to create good samples for the remoteness calculation. We may also need to find the best parameters in the sampling process.

Okay - I'll be ruthless then =)

[lindsay-fredrick]

@jonjunduan I'm a bit confused by this entire PR - the majority of the qmd appears to be methodology documentation for a possible sampling strategy that could be used by another team to re-build a metric that we are considering using in the SES? Why are we building a sampling strategy for a single small measure in our SES in our SES repo? (especially if we aren't even building the metric ourselves)