| Index | Recent Threads | Unanswered Threads | Who's Active | Guidelines | Search |
 |
World Community Grid Forums
Category: Completed Research
Forum: The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 Forum
Thread: To: My greedy wingman - Thanks! |
| No member browsing this thread |
|
Thread Status: Active Total posts in this thread: 9
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I do believe you earned me quite the bonus.
----------------------------------------When you claimed 3,013.6 points for 12.00 hours of CPU time on E203351_ 953_ C.29.C23H12N4OS.00782092.1.set1d06_ 0 (which you returned on 03/10/11 at 18:54:17), it would appear that WCG scratched its metaphorical head, shrugged its equally metaphorical shoulders, and granted you 1,520.4 points. And then - I suppose to reward me for my industriousness and humility - WCG pondered the fact that I had claimed only 117.6 points for 5.02 hours of CPU time on E203351_ 953_ C.29.C23H12N4OS.00782092.1.set1d06_ 1 (which I had returned on 02/10/11 at 21:56:28) and awarded me 6,588.3 points. I have finally been involved in a transaction where somebody else's greed benefited me the most! A first in my increasingly not inconsiderable lifetime! Thank you most kindly! (Even if it was just the software doing the claiming without any manual intervention on your - or my - part  )[Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 4, 2011 1:48:34 AM] |
||
|
|
BSD
Senior Cruncher Joined: Apr 27, 2011 Post Count: 224 Status: Offline |
Stand by for the bell curve adjustment from your CEP2 peers.
 I'm so envious of your grand achievement.  |
||
|
|
Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
Attention clean energy guru's, someone smack the server, its acting up again.
---------------------------------------- Sorry, couldnt resist. 
Crunching for humanity since 2007!
---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by Bearcat at Oct 4, 2011 2:35:12 AM] |
||
|
|
coolstream
Senior Cruncher SCOTLAND Joined: Nov 8, 2005 Post Count: 475 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
Interesting...
----------------------------------------One person's machine claims points for work done as part of the automatic process and you call that fellow cruncher greedy. Think about it. He is very likely unaware of the actual result but you are the one making a big deal of it. If you come to think of it, your machine has 'robbed' him. So who's the greedy one now? All the same. Congrats on your windfall  Crunching in memory of my Mum PEGGY, cousin ROPPA and Aunt AUDREY. |
||
|
|
astrolabe.
Senior Cruncher Joined: May 9, 2011 Post Count: 496 Status: Offline |
and now the Techs have the opportunity to adjust your points
|
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Interesting... One person's machine claims points for work done as part of the automatic process and you call that fellow cruncher greedy. Think about it. He is very likely unaware of the actual result but you are the one making a big deal of it. If you come to think of it, your machine has 'robbed' him. So who's the greedy one now? All the same. Congrats on your windfall Apparently the last line of a post is the hardest one to find the time to read and/or the most difficult to comprehend. In the event the former is the issue, I hereby quote said line of my original post: Thank you most kindly! (Even if it was just the software doing the claiming without any manual intervention on your - or my - part In the event the latter is the issue...guess I will have to work on my written English for I do (faintly) recall a technical writing course wherein I was informed that a lack of comprehension on the part of the reader was indicative of a failure by the writer.) |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
and now the Techs have the opportunity to adjust your points Not something I am concerned about. The number of points I received represented an anomaly; after decades involved in "things technical", I have found it best to bring anomalies to the attention of those who are reliant upon the accuracy of the ongoing process or analysis. The relationship between an apparently trivial output of an analysis and a more critical output is not necessarily known to someone like myself who does not have the code/math/process readily available for review. Especially when said incident provides me with an opportunity to be somewhat satirical (albeit some of the replies tend to reinforce the perception that satire is wasted on the scientific community, however peripheral the attachment to the latter may be). |
||
|
|
KWSN - A Shrubbery
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 8, 2006 Post Count: 1585 Status: Offline |
I would say satirical perception is lost on the majority of the internet community. I can't speak for the scientific community as well, although there are occasional splendid examples of ignorance from that quarter as well (guess the rarity makes them more noticeable).
----------------------------------------Don't be too hard on yourself for the lack of reading comprehension. The average person today has the equivalent attention span of a gnat it would seem. As usual, weight the comments as is appropriate to the source.  Distributed computing volunteer since September 27, 2000 |
||
|
|
coolstream
Senior Cruncher SCOTLAND Joined: Nov 8, 2005 Post Count: 475 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
Your sentiment wasn't lost on me. In fact I think that we both chose to make our point in a similar way.
----------------------------------------At the risk of repeating myself, once more I say, 'Congrats on your windfall 'Crunching in memory of my Mum PEGGY, cousin ROPPA and Aunt AUDREY. |
||
|
|
|