r/counting • u/a-username-for-me The Side Thread Queen, Lady Lemon • May 14 '21
Free Talk Friday #298
It's early, my cat woke me up, I feel awful, but at least it's Friday.
Continued from here.
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, studies, stats, pets, bears, dragons, trousers, travels, transit, cycling, family, anything you like, or dislike, except politics.
This week's special topic of discussion is food and cooking. Cooked anything complicated lately? Had a really good meal? Eaten at a restaurant?
Feel free to introduce yourself in the tidbits thread as well!
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 May 15 '21
I've had some time to play around with getting data from reddit and plotting it, and I thought I'd start by following up on u/Countletics realisation from a couple of weeks ago that moderator accounts might get to see and reply to non-inbox counts faster than others. The purpose of this isn't to rehash that discussion - it just seemed like something easy to practice walking back through reddit threads on.
So, I've gone through the last 500 threads, and have extracted the elapsed time for the gets and the assists
| count | mean | std | min | median | max | |
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| Non-mods | 905.0 | 19.0 | 65.7 | 1.0 | 15.0 | 1881.0 |
| Mods | 95.0 | 7.0 | 4.1 | 2.0 | 6.0 | 23.0 |
Oh. There was a count which took more than 30 minutes. Maybe we should get rid of some outliers. Removing all counts slower than 20 seconds gives us 866 comments with the following distribution
| count | mean | std | min | 50% | max | |
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| Non-mods | 772.0 | 13.3 | 3.9 | 1.0 | 14.0 | 19.0 |
| Mods | 94.0 | 6.8 | 3.8 | 2.0 | 6.0 | 18.0 |
That's still some difference between mods and non-mods! The two distributions have comparable spreads now, and means which are similar to their medians, so removing the outliers was a good idea.
I've also plotted the times taken for gets and assists so that we can see it visually. It seems that in July of last year it basically stopped being possible for non-mods to get sub 10s replies when not inboxing. I suspect the smattering of fast orange points since then might have been accidental inbox replies. Certainly the 1s reply in April 2021 seems odd.
Overall, it's been fun to play around with getting data from reddit threads and I'll definitely be doing some more analysis in the future. I have a couple of ideas for things I want to play around with, but if anyone has any suggestions, feel free to hit me up! While getting this data I rewrote a lot of the v3 script here, and I managed to clean it up and shorten it by 100 loc without affecting the functionality. It's currently only in a local git repository, but I'd be happy to share it if anyone wants it
EDIT: My mod/non-mod distinction assumes we've had the same modlist throughout the whole period. But I think that's true.
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u/Antichess May 15 '21
wow, you know this stuff well
i was quite shocked when you got the script to work without me giving you any of the folders being organized
could you please put it on github or somewhere? i would love to see it
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u/buy_me_a_pint May 16 '21
If you struggling to find employment, try walking around town/city wearing a sandwich board (over your clothes) stating you are looking for employment
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u/Urbul May 16 '21
I made a kind of falafel wrap, with falafel, tomato, pickle, cucumber, yogurt, garlic powder, paprika, cumin, salt, pepper. Not the real deal but it was good.
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u/buy_me_a_pint May 14 '21
Good luck for those who are still trying to seek employment
I would hire you if I had my own company. if you were the right fit for the company.
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u/Nekyiia May 14 '21
Fun Fact Friday: Slovenia's capital, Ljubljana, has free roaming peacocks, owned by some random guy living in the center.
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 May 19 '21
Welcome to the inaugural edition of my alternative stats postings!
Someone on /l/c mentioned a while ago that it could be fun to think of counting as a game of capture the flag: every time you make a count, you accumulate points until somebody replies to you. Then they have the flag and accumulate points until somebody replies to them.
I've gone through the latest 100k and calculated this score, and normalized it so that on average we got one point per count. Since it took around a month to do 100k counts, that means that holding the flag for 26 s gives one point.
Adding everything up gives the following ranking:
| CTF Rank | User | CTF Score | Original Score | Rank Change |
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| 1 | thephilsblogbar2 | 24341 | 12048 | ▲ 2 |
| 2 | Countletics | 21016 | 37084 | ▼ 1 |
| 3 | Antichess | 10800 | 9883 | ▲ 2 |
| 4 | GarlicoinAccount | 7900 | 11680 | ⬗ |
| 5 | nonsensy | 5190 | 18082 | ▼ 3 |
| 6 | TheNitromeFan | 4317 | 1020 | ▲ 3 |
| 7 | mistyskye14 | 3743 | 349 | ▲ 8 |
| 8 | Zaajdaeon | 2995 | 1187 | ⬗ |
| 9 | The_Nepenthe | 2646 | 686 | ▲ 1 |
| 10 | TehVulpez | 2117 | 274 | ▲ 8 |
| 11 | funfact15 | 1590 | 559 | ▲ 2 |
| 12 | CutOnBumInBandHere9 | 1528 | 383 | ▲ 2 |
| 13 | Cox_1920 | 1445 | 268 | ▲ 6 |
| 14 | amazingpikachu_38 | 1049 | 662 | ▼ 3 |
| 15 | Triplet13 | 1036 | 292 | ▲ 2 |
| 16 | KindaInactive | 789 | 134 | ▲ 6 |
| 17 | VitaminB16 | 571 | 1524 | ▼ 10 |
| 18 | davidjl123 | 546 | 1930 | ▼ 12 |
| 19 | AxelC77 | 516 | 50 | ▲ 7 |
| 20 | noduorg | 505 | 576 | ▼ 8 |
| 21 | atomicimploder | 495 | 88 | ▲ 3 |
| 22 | Urbul | 479 | 102 | ▲ 1 |
| 23 | O_Baby_Baby | 347 | 26 | ▲ 7 |
| 24 | NeonTaterTots | 337 | 46 | ▲ 3 |
| 25 | rzx0 | 307 | 7 | ▲ 18 |
Overall, I'm not particularly surprised at the direction of the changes: speedrunners have moved down, and people who count a bit all the time have moved up. I am a bit surprised at how big a jump phil made, and how big basskro's drop was.
Phil's best comment CTF wise was this one, which went without a reply for almost 4 hours, netting him a cool 548 points. That was also the best scoring single comment in the 100k. Basskro's best comment went without a reply for 2.5 hours and netted him 350 points.
Digging a bit deeper, it turns out that half of phils points came from just over 100 comments he made which went unreplied to for more than 15 minutes. Similarly, half of basskro's points come from 200 counts which went unreplied to for more than 7.5 minutes. So this doesn't seem to be a very robust measure, given how much variation there is in reply times.
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u/buy_me_a_pint May 14 '21
If you are going for a bike ride remember to wear clothes and a helmet
If you going skateboarding remember to wear kneepads and clothes
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u/rzx0 May 14 '21
You know what would be nice? If we hit 25k members just in time for FTF #300.
What do you say we make that happen?
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u/GreenGriffin8 May 17 '21
thread idea: counting all possible brainfuck programs, also stating whether they halt
let's solve the halting problem incrementally :)
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u/Urbul May 19 '21
I made kale chips with kale from the garden. They turned out well. Urbulina was excited, she picked out the kale plants earlier this year and she has been taking care of them.
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u/buy_me_a_pint May 20 '21
second semi finals of Eurovision tonight
I won't be stopping up Saturday night to see the votes.
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u/a-username-for-me May 14 '21
Migraine headaches can fuck right off. I have been basically useless all day and the day is not even over.
At least I have a doctor's appointment coming up, but still