JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit — pull request #225 by arielf (2014-01-05 20:52:01+00:00)
Title: initialization fixes to --progress, now more logical + test suite and references updates

This fixes the update progress dumps to behave more rationally:

1) Initialization of first "dump_interval" is 1.0 rather than exp(1) which used to print example 3 first
2) Doubling the dump_interval now results in 1,2,4,8,...
3) progress updates are printed if weighted_examples equals or exceeds dump_interval (condition was strictly "greater than" which was inaccurate, leading to off-by-one inconsistencies)
4) The update of dump_interval which could diverge over time from the printed example is now synchronized with the printing whenever printing happens, so the printing gaps are not turning seemingly semi-random at times.
6) In additive progress dumps we start at 0 so: --progress 10 means: 10,20,30,40,...
7) in multiplicative progress dumps we start at 1.0, so --progress 2.0 (default) means: 1,2,4,8,16,...

I went through all the references one by one and confirmed they 1) make sense and 2) don't introduce any new issue.

Fully updated the references to pass the test suite.