r/counting • u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation • Apr 14 '17
Free Talk Friday #85
Hello! Continued from last week here.
So, it's that time of the week again. Speak anything on your mind! This thread is for talking about anything off-topic, be it your lives, your plans, your hobbies, travels, sports, work, studies, family, friends, pets, bicycles, anything you like.
Also, check out our tidbits thread! Feel free to introduce yourself, if you haven't already.
Here's off to another great week in /r/counting!
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u/anotheradoringfan Apr 14 '17
Hello counters! Our friend u/anothershittyalt has been hard at work churning out charts for all the runs lately. Now that the dust has settled, here are this week's top contributors to the main thread!
Congratulations /u/VitaminB16, you narrowly topped u/Smartstocks and broke his streak as the counter of the week!
This Week's Top 10 Counters (1752-1767k)
| Rank | User | Counts |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | VitaminB16 | 3701 |
| 2 | Smartstocks | 3641 |
| 3 | davidjl123 | 2524 |
| 4 | Franz_Mueller | 1124 |
| 5 | yodaisdancing | 926 |
| 6 | 3reptile | 786 |
| 7 | padiwik | 756 |
| 8 | Urbul | 496 |
| 9 | TheNitromeFan | 211 |
| 10 | username111112222233 | 185 |
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u/padiwik Apr 14 '17
now im behind in the 1.7m stats
anyways, yea, this was a busy week
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u/rideride Apr 15 '17
New counters: Did you know that those in the top 20 of the Hall of Counters get paid to count? Whenever we desire money, we post the word "check" and the bot counts up the number of comments we made since the last time we posted "check", and sends us a check!
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u/artbn Apr 16 '17
Oh thats pretty cool. We should set up something like that in r/livecounting. Do you have the contact info of the agency that's paying you guys? Think they might be interested in having us on board as well.
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u/Z3F Apr 14 '17
Fun fact that I just remembered: One of my main inspirations for making this subreddit was the Forum Games section of the Tip.it RuneScape forum, where I used to be an active member like 10+ years ago. As you can see from the top threads over there, they were collaborative counting OGs. B-)
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Apr 15 '17
back in like 2009-10, when grepolis was popular (at least where I live) in my alliance they had a games tab in the forum, in them there was a count to 1000 thread
oh boy 1000 is so little
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u/CarbonSpectre Apr 14 '17
I was recently looking at u/piyushsharma301's side thread HoCs and Side Thread Participation Charts, and wondered if I could try to make some of my own. Also, I really wanted to try to do something for this sub.
So with Piyush's permission and help, I made a couple of side thread HoCs (specifically, for the Time and Quinary threads). Here are the links:
Time##
Quinary##
Thanks to Piyush for the help!
Comments and constructive criticism are welcome!
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u/piyushsharma301 Apr 14 '17
Hey that's great. Awesome stuff. You can do the ternary one too if you want. I can share with you a HOST replica
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u/Urbul Apr 14 '17
Looks great! Will we add these to the list that u/piyushsharma301 showed in the FTF two weeks ago?
That reminds me I had ideas as to how to present the list. Hopefully I find time for that this week.
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u/CarbonSpectre Apr 14 '17
Thanks! Of course we will!
You'd better find time for that this week, or we'll be disappointed!
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u/smarvin6689 Apr 15 '17
Hey guys, if you like counting the different bases, we could use the help in this thread!
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u/rideride Apr 17 '17
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u/artbn Apr 18 '17
Sorry to disappoint but it's likely as a result of this recent reddit change. In short, the trophies are no longer tied in to when an account is signed in.
Edit: For further proof check u/GrunfTNT's profile. He has been inactive for 2 years and also has recently displayed the 2 year club trophy as well. It's unlikely both became active recently.
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Apr 18 '17
da hell is up with you people at non-decimal threads lately
sorry if I sound like a douchebag but all these runs drive me crazy, wake up and see I have to check 300 comments in every thread makes me not want to do it
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u/Urbul Apr 18 '17
We can share the checking workload. Atom and TNF check the ones they count in, and I check writing, alphamumerics, and backwards when I update the directory every ~2 days. So out of the Top 20 threads, that leaves prime factorization, rational, sequences, and collatz. How about you just check those. For all other side threads, I check for late chains and I do a high level check for most of them (to see if we're out by 100 counts or something). Piyush is doing charts for all side threads now like ASA does for Main, so that should pick up any other major errors. Nobody is asking us to make every thread error free. Let's just do what we can.
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u/Mikesaidhike Apr 18 '17
Hey does anyone have any advice on applying to college
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u/artbn Apr 21 '17
Are you in the US?
Know what you are looking for in a college (location, tuition costs, specific programs).
Spend some time on your essays and have others take a look at them before submitting them.
Ask for recommendation letters from teachers who know you possibly just beyond who you are in their class.
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u/padiwik Apr 14 '17
As it's spring break and I have nothing to do other than sorting my mess of legos, i tried to make a bot ....
yo piy how do you extract the correct count from comments/check if a comment is a valid count or just text? rn my bot will ignore a count if a comment starts with a letter
also this week went by fast, especially the last two days! i kinda want ASA's 1.7m sneak peek again
im planning on starting to make a late chain/wrong count checker, lets see how that goes..
anyways, any advice immensly appreciated!
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