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1 or 2 people downmod you and you devote 6 posts to whining about it? This is a broadcast medium. Of course the 5 people who voted you down for wasting their time aren't going to explain why the first 1 or 2 people didn't like the first post.
It didn't say that to me. So much for articulate.
If it's oh so important, don't leave it buried at the bottom a thread of context. Write something new. Why should we care about your parameter, rather than Wei Dai's? Why should we care about any parameter?
It may surprise you to note that I linked to the comment from a very visible place in the discussion.
Because Wei Dai asked for how to generate a solution that makes epistemic sense, and mine was the only one that accurately incorporated the concept of "probability of being at a given intersection".
And of course, Wei_Dai saw fit to use the p q r parameters just the same.
Exhuming it and putting it on display doesn't solve the problem of context. People who clicked through (I speak from experience) didn't see how it did what the link said it did. It was plausible that if I reread the thread it would mean something, but my vague memory of the thread was that it went off in a boring direction.
My questions were not intended for you to answer here, yet further removed from the context where one might care about their answers. If you write something self-contained that explains why I should care about it, I'll read it.