Posts by William
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Kitty cooling off thread...................
(Message 1790915)
Posted 27 May 2016 by  William
Post: Sounds like you may have a few issues. They have people to talk to and tablets for that these days. Actually, I think he meant me :D He's been telling me to get tablets for almost 6 years now ::) Sorry to hear that about your brother, Mark. However many years ago, some things we never forget. (even those of us not blessed [or cursed] with an eidetic memory) Sometimes you think it is quite impossible to go on. And you open the door to the roof, where it's 6 storeys high and only a light railing to prevent anyone falling off acidentally, but not enough to stop somebody jumping. And I sat in the open door, crying and crying (and I don't really remember why) I didn't want to go on, I couldn't bring myself to jump [in hindsight, can't have been really all that bad, since I never even approached the railing. being afraid of heights may or may not have played a part] and after some time I some how found the courage to go back inside and carry on. Some people are not that lucky. Luckily it only got that bad once more, when, standing on the train platform during a particularly trying time, the thought suddenly crossed my head that I just had to jump in front of the incoming train for a very final solution. Of course you do leave quite a mess for other people. But when you are there... Oh well. Maybe you have to have been on that brink to understand how tempting it is. To quote Nietzsche 'when you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back at you' |
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Kitty cooling off thread...................
(Message 1790899)
Posted 27 May 2016 by William
Post: What about if I post nerdy optimisation videos here ? Is that OK ? You're playing every card, aren't you? Hope you're having fun. I am being considerate. Actually I am also being realistic (though definitely not realistic enough or I wouldn't be fighting a lost cause) and I know when it's time to move on. Jord made 10 years, but I think 5 is enough for me. Time to have a chat with Fred. Oh, it's been convenient to have access to the hat, sure enough, but moderatos shoud be able to post from the account that has the tag. That was always a drawback to this solution. Me, have all the answers? I'm not God. What about you? There are always choices and alway decisions to be made. And not doing anything is a course of action, too. |
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Kitty cooling off thread...................
(Message 1790895)
Posted 27 May 2016 by William
Post: Just move the thread if you want, problem solved. lol. it's not about what I want. But I'm afraid there's a place for everything, so as much as I like to give Mark some space, and totally understand needing to cool down, this is still NC (at time of writing) and it really doesn't look like an NC topic or NC related posts. Of course, some light chatting isn't a problem, the panic thread is a perfect example for that, but if nothing in the thread suggests it belongs in NC, then a moderator is obliged to move it, and I still can put on the hat. I've been making ample use of my discretion so far, but thre's only so much you can get away with. I guess the next few posts will decide if this exchange is heading for the Cafe. |
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Kitty cooling off thread...................
(Message 1790887)
Posted 27 May 2016 by William
Post: What about if I post nerdy optimisation videos here ? Is that OK ? I don't think I ever saw a rule against it. I'm in the 'there are no rules, only guidelines' camp anyway. I'll be glad to pass on the hat. I'm tired of getting hurt. I may have developed a thick skin over the past 5 years, but some people will always be too close to your heart, not to get through. I'll be keeping the rolling pin though. |
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Kitty cooling off thread...................
(Message 1790882)
Posted 27 May 2016 by William
Post: Why is it that people take a mile when you offer them an inch? Mark, even when I turn a blind eye I'm not going to turn both, ok? There's plenty of Cafe space to post music videos to. |
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Kitty cooling off thread...................
(Message 1790877)
Posted 27 May 2016 by William
Post: Guys, really, this is sooo a cafe thread atm. Could you at least throw some tech in, for the sake of appearances? A cat on a roomba perhaps? Oh my. Good thing I didn't own a cat at the time or She'd surely have been making good use of the warm air being blown up through Eve's keyboard... |
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Kitty cooling off thread...................
(Message 1790874)
Posted 27 May 2016 by William
Post: Guys, really, this is sooo a cafe thread atm. Could you at least throw some tech in, for the sake of appearances? A cat on a roomba perhaps? |
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Windows 10 - Yea or Nay?
(Message 1790866)
Posted 27 May 2016 by William
Post: Can we stay non-political in NC please? Sounds too much like waiting for Godot. Motion declined. edit: you may proceed. I think that was enough of an amnesty. |
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Windows 10 - Yea or Nay?
(Message 1790860)
Posted 27 May 2016 by William
Post: Can we stay non-political in NC please? |
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GBT ('guppi') .vlar tasks will be send to GPUs, what you think about this?
(Message 1788949)
Posted 20 May 2016 by William
Post: What one who interested in project results, not in competition for imaginary toaster, will chose? Ever the optimist, eh? OTOH, maybe it's that bad, it can only get better... |
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OpenCL MB v8.12 issues thread
(Message 1788413)
Posted 18 May 2016 by William
Post: It's not openCL workunits it's openCL app. You can run the stock apps under anonymous platform and restrict the set to what you want. It's just a lot more work than installer, since you need to write your own app_info.xml And you can reassign WUs after they've been downloaded but it requires stopping boinc, tampering with client_state.xml and restarting. One could even write a batch file and automate the process. Which 3rd party apps did you have trouble with if I may ask? Seeing as Raistmer's and Jason's work eventually becomes stock... |
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OpenCL MB v8.12 issues thread
(Message 1788404)
Posted 18 May 2016 by William
Post: I just noticed that running legacy with setiathome_8.12_windows_intelx86__opencl_nvidia_sah.exe uses up 1.0 (100%) CPU per WU despite the app_config.xml settings of <app_config>. It's not openCL workunits it's openCL app. You can use the lunatics installer and specify exactly what apps you want to run. |
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Cafe SETI :
Raccoon Update XXIII - All Are Welcome In The Critter Cafe
(Message 1788389)
Posted 18 May 2016 by William
Post: There seemed to be an awful racket outside our first floor window, which upon investigation turned out to be sparrows nesting in the wooden compartment between gutter, wall and roof. |
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Average Credit Decreasing?
(Message 1787236)
Posted 13 May 2016 by William
Post: how was that about a wise (wo)man accepting the things she/he cannot change? *ducks* |
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Average Credit Decreasing?
(Message 1786958)
Posted 12 May 2016 by William
Post: Got a spreadsheet somewhere on Googledocs for analysing Albert data [Edit: may have been seti-beta CPU, will see], Will dig it out on the weekend. Data from Eve, now sadly demised. Beta iirc, only place that keeps results almost indefinitely and is best if you need to compare stuff. I'll rummage. edit: on second thought, you may have a spreadsheet, I've got the original data... somewhere. dang. edit 2: I did find the spreadsheet though. I can't find the original graph on the cloud. Must be somewhere though... |
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Average Credit Decreasing?
(Message 1786647)
Posted 11 May 2016 by William
Post: True. It *appears* and is árbitrary (actually chaotic), because of the faults. 'Three is Chaos' No it's not random, but the code amounts to fairly unpredictable credit awards (though as for any chaotic system, there are patterns [*]) and to the layman unpredictable is pretty much the same as random. We say chaotic, when we know you could calculate it. 'random' is a word we use when there don't seem to be any rules. Very few things are truly random. Blame physics for that ;) [*] and if you were in possession of every single variable used in CN you could indeed calculate how much credit you'll be getting. CN IS a calculation after all. |
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Munin setiathome has now also graphs for V8
(Message 1783422)
Posted 29 Apr 2016 by William
Post: That's because of the xml error Andy reported a few days ago. |
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Task Preference Not Being Honored
(Message 1783418)
Posted 29 Apr 2016 by William
Post: Nonetheless he should be getting v8 if no AP are available with the first setting. |
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SETI V8 CPU Wierdness
(Message 1783416)
Posted 29 Apr 2016 by William
Post: signal cor caroli i have the image Might as well try to signal cori celesti... ;) |
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Average Credit Decreasing?
(Message 1783206)
Posted 28 Apr 2016 by William
Post: In easier words, it is supposed to take the time you took for a task, award you credit according to how efficient you were (compared to all tasks and tasks in your group of tasks) in crunching the task, [I think in theory, you are supposed to get a bonus if you are faster than the average] and then use the time (in relation to how 'big' the task was) to estimate your speed for future tasks (APR). I'm not sure that was an easier explanation of what it's supposed to do... In praxi, we have noticed that it falls sadly short of both making a good estimate of your speed (it lacks adaptability) and of awarding credit relative to your efficiency. In short, the way in which it was implemented (coded) cannot work. It leads to chaotic behaviour. |
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