Official 4,000,000th Post Contest!

[aczlan]

Aaron Z

 

[sleepybozo]

Now stop that! At the *normal* rate the counter will hit 4,000,000 this evening, right where we, well, *I* want it!

 

[aczlan]

Now stop that! At the *normal* rate the counter will hit 4,000,000 this evening, right where we, well, *I* want it!

At the current rate of 60-70 posts per hour (in the daytime) 8:45PM is more likely. To hit 4 million posts on your guessed time of 6:01PM, we would need to hit ~123 posts per hour.

Aaron Z

 

[riptides]

Maybe, depends on how many people post today... I have a spreadsheet where I have been tracking it at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApLZQNHvoMIldEFWbklFdFZqVHJtYVo2NUMwb09iSVE&usp=sharing
IMO, its a tossup if it will happen tonight or early tomorrow morning.

Aaron Z

Darn, I just did some quick analytics using the Big Blue Machine and the Crays I had idling at the time. I then ran some new parallel quantum forking code I just wrote, and then I entered the data into TBN. I had to wait a few milli-seconds for the Blue machine to output the variables. I told my engineers the throughput speeds on the memristors needed to be adjusted. They agreed and we will apply new flashes during our next upgrades. Everybody wins in my scenario!

 

[aczlan]

~360 posts to go. Time to step it up a little people, the last hour and a half only had 44.81 posts per hour, how can I win that way?

Aaron Z

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Darn, I just did some quick analytics using the Big Blue Machine and the Crays I had idling at the time. I then ran some new parallel quantum forking code I just wrote, and then I entered the data into TBN. I had to wait a few milli-seconds for the Blue machine to output the variables. I told my engineers the throughput speeds on the memristors needed to be adjusted. They agreed and we will apply new flashes during our next upgrades. Everybody wins in my scenario!

Did you account for the exponential asymptotes that occur just before each person's guestimated time pick? Meaning that each person kicks in a whole lotta posts to try and get his/her time choice to be the winning pick.

 

[aczlan]

314 posts to go

Aaron Z

 

[rekees4300]

Is it too late to change my guess?

 

[Green Power]

Is it too late to change my guess?

Yes....

 

[sleepybozo]

Darn! Missed it by 231 posts. Guess I'll have to settle for learning tractor stuff (which is worth a lot more than any gift card!).