Workflow: XY Values to Functions

[OAGr]

It can be painful to draw out some curve of how I expect some variable will change in the future.

One way of doing this would be to list out some specific points and their values in the future, and have a function interpolate that data.

For example, if I were to estimate the number of employees at QURI in the future, I could estimate:

employeeCount = [[2023.5, 2 to 2.4], [2024, 1.5 to 2.5], [2025, 0.2 to 3]]

Then I'd want a function (t -> dist) that takes in a time from 2023.5 to 2025, and returns the expected dist.

This probably requires interpolating between distributions.
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We could start with linear interpolation, and have something more advanced later on.

Generally, going between "points of XY values" and "functions" seems like an important thing to get good at.

My guess is that eventually, we'll want an "multidimensional pointset format" to convert things into and work with, but that could be a while.