Generate your random hexagrams with a computer. (You probably already do.)
At the end of each day, indicate which of the things the computer told you turned out to be useful (or harmful) that day.
Have the computer keep track of which hexagrams are most frequently useful.
(Perhaps allowing for some time-varying component—e.g., varying with day of week or season of year.)
Have it generate more-frequently-useful ones more often. (Not to the exclusion of others. Though this might be a self-correcting problem—if you hear something too often, being reminded may be useful to you less often.)
Generate your random hexagrams with a computer. (You probably already do.)
I considered this, and I probably will if I do it long-term (though, really, it’ll need to be a phone app since I don’t boot up my home computer until the late afternoon anyway), but for now I’m flipping coins.
I will note, though, that my translation has slightly more structure than just rolling a d64; two hexagrams uniquely specify the relevant reading. (It’s rolling 6d8, but doesn’t have the full 8^6 potential outcomes; it’s actually only 4^6.) This means the Birthday Problem happens over a much longer timescale. I might get the same primary hexagram tomorrow, which is the same general problem/situation/perspective, but the actual advice may change. (Because the fourth line was generated in the 1/4th case instead of the 3/4ths case, I was advised to seek union, which I interpreted by seeking a meeting with a mentor that I wouldn’t otherwise have sought, and he in turn advised me to set up other meetings that I otherwise wouldn’t have sought.)
So it may be the case that I can figure out that the fourth line should be more yang than yin, or more likely to be reversed than 1⁄4, or so on, but I think if I model at the level of individual hexagrams it’ll be a long, long time before I’ve shifted the priors enough to have an effect. (Of course, one could set up a hierarchical model that takes all this into account, and with more people using such a system the time required for data collection would decrease.)
Ah, OK, that would indeed make a difference. My apologies for my ignorance. Still, if you have a primary and a secondary hexagram, maybe it suffices to look at the “effectiveness” of the primary hexagram only.
Proposal:
Generate your random hexagrams with a computer. (You probably already do.)
At the end of each day, indicate which of the things the computer told you turned out to be useful (or harmful) that day.
Have the computer keep track of which hexagrams are most frequently useful.
(Perhaps allowing for some time-varying component—e.g., varying with day of week or season of year.)
Have it generate more-frequently-useful ones more often. (Not to the exclusion of others. Though this might be a self-correcting problem—if you hear something too often, being reminded may be useful to you less often.)
I considered this, and I probably will if I do it long-term (though, really, it’ll need to be a phone app since I don’t boot up my home computer until the late afternoon anyway), but for now I’m flipping coins.
I will note, though, that my translation has slightly more structure than just rolling a d64; two hexagrams uniquely specify the relevant reading. (It’s rolling 6d8, but doesn’t have the full 8^6 potential outcomes; it’s actually only 4^6.) This means the Birthday Problem happens over a much longer timescale. I might get the same primary hexagram tomorrow, which is the same general problem/situation/perspective, but the actual advice may change. (Because the fourth line was generated in the 1/4th case instead of the 3/4ths case, I was advised to seek union, which I interpreted by seeking a meeting with a mentor that I wouldn’t otherwise have sought, and he in turn advised me to set up other meetings that I otherwise wouldn’t have sought.)
So it may be the case that I can figure out that the fourth line should be more yang than yin, or more likely to be reversed than 1⁄4, or so on, but I think if I model at the level of individual hexagrams it’ll be a long, long time before I’ve shifted the priors enough to have an effect. (Of course, one could set up a hierarchical model that takes all this into account, and with more people using such a system the time required for data collection would decrease.)
Ah, OK, that would indeed make a difference. My apologies for my ignorance. Still, if you have a primary and a secondary hexagram, maybe it suffices to look at the “effectiveness” of the primary hexagram only.