Predictive Modeling

These links have to do with the fact that a metademiurge is in fact dealing with a meta-entity. You're giving birth to and raising a mythos, actually. This goes beyond "an author's web presence" and is more like growing and feeding an artificial entity (artificial as in artifice) which will let me as an author/creator make stories and immersive environments over disparate media and share them with a dynamically growing and interacting audience.

And make money. That's always nice.

So how do you know what you've created? And since it's dynamic, how do you know this meta-entity is growing and thriving the way you want it to?

http://predictiveanalytics.org/predictive-analytics-interview-with-andreas-s-weigend-phd.htm

You shouldn't just throw the hand grenade into the fire and see if it explodes. Figure out your environment before you do anything. More importantly, have a method for keeping an ongoing watch on your environment and its variables. "What happens if I do THIS?" should be modeled first.

And if someday I REALLY want to get into this, I'll go here:

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=138867&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE&CFID=82818650&CFTOKEN=95332767

Oh all right, yes, I'll ask someone who's passed a higher math class recently to go here, and then explain it to me.