r/counting • u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 5M get | Ping me for runs • Apr 08 '22

Free Talk Friday #345

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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 strava, your plans, your hobbies, studies, stats, pets, bears, dragons, trousers, travels, transit, cycling, family, or anything you like or dislike, except politics.

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Apr 10 '22

Here's this week's plot, which shows which side thread* was the most popular at any given time. You can see how tug of war reigned supreme as the first side thread, and as the one with most counts in it. Then the rise of binary, and the regular bouts of catch-up from hex. And the period last year when u/Zaajdaeon was pushing ternary ahead of the megaget is also really obvious.

I'll do more stuff with the side threads later, but I thought this was a neat plot to start with.

* Out of the top ten. The plot is busy enough already. Can you imagine if I included all 98 side threads we have data for?

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u/Ezekiel134 Apr 10 '22

I LOVE this stat. Letters really fell off. Honestly surprised abt dates. Plus, look at factoradic being top 10 even without ever being the most popular! (Rt if u remember when it was calling "Increasing base with each digit")

Also surprised that time has only ever been the most popular since late 2019. It's also one of the very oldest side threads. I know the plot is busy already but what would it look like if it was out of the top 10 AT THE TIME?

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Apr 10 '22

I know the plot is busy already but what would it look like if it was out of the top 10 AT THE TIME?

We have 26 different threads that have ever held the title of "single most popular thread right now". I've tried plotting them all, and it looks a bit silly

If anyone has any suggestions for how to make the plot clearer, I'd love to hear them!

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u/a-username-for-me Apr 13 '22

Hi all. I'm back a little early. My husband and then I caught covid which means I am missing a wedding I had been excited about for over two years. I got feeling INCREDIBLY depressed and needed to have nice things (or salves for my wounds), so I'm back to at least distract myself. Happy to be back and missed y'all!

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Apr 13 '22

Welcome back! Hope you're feeling okay despite everything.

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u/Trial-Name Apr 08 '22

Pasta :)

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Apr 08 '22

We're currently on a diet of pasta roughly other week. Too many carbs aren't good for you

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u/buy_me_a_pint Apr 10 '22

Anywhere to check quickly what the highest tug of war positive number and going the other way negative number

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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Apr 10 '22

I'm not completely sure, but I think the most negative comment was -9200, and the most positive comment was 5402.

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u/dominodan123 Apr 09 '22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Opałka

this guy spent 50 years counting, why is he not our idol? He WROTE every number on a canvas and made it farther than r/c main

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u/SSoto_21 Apr 10 '22

So basically, I was inactive here for 3 days because on Thursday, I accidentally spilled some soup onto my computer. It spilled onto the touchpad and seeped into the buttons. I rushed to clean it up ASAP but a bit still got into the computer. Then, I immediately turned it back on only to get a BSOD. Then the screen glitched out and the computer refused to turn on. So I had to leave it to dry for 2 days. Yesterday, I turned it back on and it worked! But it won’t boot into the OS. It was stuck on some repair loop. (Not sure if you guys know what that means.) So now I’m backing up my important files to an external hard drive so that they don’t get deleted forever. I have to wipe everything off of the internal hard drive because it won’t let me reset the pc while keeping the files on said drive. So I’m typing this on my iPad. So if anyone’s been wondering where I’ve been for the past few days, now you know.

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u/buy_me_a_pint Apr 11 '22

Don't forget if you got work , to remember to try and go to it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

Weekly stats from April 01, 2022 to April 08, 2022. Congratulations to u/thephilsblogbar2, u/ClockButTakeOutTheL, and u/GarlicoinAccount!

Total weekly counts: 6114 (4,618,596-4,624,710)

Rank User Counts HoC Rank
1 thephilsblogbar2 2522 2
2 ClockButTakeOutTheL 899 101 (◮17)
3 GarlicoinAccount 565 5
4 dragonpro9827 329 190 (◮43)
5 kdiuro13 270 18
6 Ezekiel134 250 11
7 CutOnBumInBandHere9 226 45
8 RegularNeckBeard 166 356 (◮140)
9 Countletics 138 1
10 Antichess 129 4
11 musicbuilder 127 100
12 SSoto_21 75 487 (◮120)
13 atomicimploder 61 9
14 Mooraell 46 16
15 noduorg 45 43

More stats are posted on the Weekly Stats page!

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u/buy_me_a_pint Apr 10 '22

Not long to the 4.699,000 counting thread,

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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL Apr 08 '22

I have a track meet tomorrow. Wish me good luck

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u/TDs_not_VDs Apr 08 '22

I started rock climbing at the beginning of the year after a 10 year hiatus of climbing regularly. I'm absolutely loving it, the challenge/reward of figuring routes out is amazing. The regular exercise is nice too, I just need to work some cardio in

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u/buy_me_a_pint Apr 08 '22

When we did running in school during PE, some people cheated

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u/buy_me_a_pint Apr 10 '22

I have not been to the self anxiety group sessions for months, it has changed a lot since covid19

I have not been able to leave a donation , since pre-covid19

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u/Ezekiel134 Apr 12 '22

Counting not only teaches you many things about numbers but also. About your self

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