09-21-11 – Airborne

Plama, as awesome as a cross-collaboration sounds, I’m not sure my ego could withstand working with someone who’s actually still a master of higher math. “Use it or lose it” is a harsh reality for me and my math skills. By “implement”, I meant “integrate with an open-source library created by people who still understand this kind of stuff.” 🙂 The library I’ve got my eye on is at http://phash.org.

I’d agree that it’s pretty safe to congratulate aspidites at this point. Heck, I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t end up doubling the second place for total votes.

Here’s the newb and LTNS list for this week:

Newbs: Clockwork Kumquat, drmda, Gamera is Filled with Turtle Meat, Iniamyen1, Meltro, Tchaikovsky

LTNS:

UserName         LastDate    LastContest                          WeeksSince  ContestCount









clear_prop       2010-08-11  Farkitol 100mg                            58           19

Demise           2010-01-27  I Like It Anyways                         86            4

DrBear           2010-11-24  Farktography Classic: Autumn II           43            2

frostalicious    2007-10-10  Farktography Classic: Bridges II         206            4

Ijustworkhere    2009-09-16  Look Out Below                           105           31

PleasedToMeetMe  2008-01-23  Farktography Classic: Teh Funnay 2       191            8

radiobiz         2010-01-20  Sunrise... Sunset...                      87            2

Whatthefark      2009-04-22  Frankly My Deer, I Don't Give A Dam      126            5

Note that we’ve got a couple that haven’t been seen in almost 4 years!

Plama, as awesome as a cross-collaboration sounds, I’m not sure my ego could withstand working with someone who’s actually still a master of higher math. “Use it or lose it” is a harsh reality for me and my math skills. By “implement”, I meant “integrate with an open-source library created by people who still understand this kind of stuff.” 🙂 The library I’ve got my eye on is at http://phash.org.

I’m not so sure how applicable the term “Master of Higher Math” is to me, even though it sounds pretty cool. I do know a bit, but my weakness is the programming-I know just enough to do exactly what I want (although not necessarily efficiently) and no more. Using stuff from a library is probably a WAY safer bet. Also easier. And quicker.

Well deserved indeed. Congrats aspidites on the firsts in both individual and combined.

Here are this week’s SQ top ten lists. By votes:

Rank  UserName        Votes

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1   U-Man             847

2   ravnostic         770

3   Ranger Joe        642

4   orionid           631

5   oddmind           600

6   kestrana          589

7   SilverStag        561

8   BecauseISaidSo    552

9   Ennuipoet         549

10   olavf             515

By NVC:

Rank  UserName           NVC

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1   U-Man           451.87

2   ravnostic       418.10

3   Ranger Joe      351.86

4   orionid         348.63

5   oddmind         319.82

6   kestrana        313.96

7   BecauseISaidSo  307.74

8   SilverStag      303.00

9   Ennuipoet       289.13

10   olavf           274.32

Congrats to aspidities this week–a very well deserved win!

Thanks 😀

It’s been a pretty good week.

1st time I got above 3rd place here.

This photo made it to the finalist on BetterPhoto

http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/dynoGallDetail.asp?photoID=12110178

and I got a deal with a greeting card company, they are interested in 8 pictures so far and they are useing this one in their fall line up.

http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/dynoGallDetail.asp?photoID=689571

😀 😀

Why aren’t these lists in the same order?

If everyone on the list entered in all 12 contests represented by the sliding quarter, then they would be the same. However, say person A and person B each only entered in 11 out of the 12 past contests, 10 of which are the same and 1 of which is different. Their vote totals could be tied, but if person A got 20 votes in a contest that had 1000 total (NVC of 20) and person B got 20 votes in a contest that had 2000 total (NVC of 10), then person A would have the greater summed percentage of total votes across the contests, even though they both had the same actual vote totals.

Does that clear it up?

p.s. BTW, loved your balloon shot.

You’re right, sleeping, my bad. If we simplify to the smallest example, let’s say person A & B both enter the same two contests. Contest #1 has 1000 votes total so NVC=Votes, person A gets 10 votes/NVC and person B gets 20 votes/NVC. Contest #2 has 2000 votes total so NVC=Votes/2, person A gets 20 votes/10 NVC and person B gets 10 votes/5 NVC. Both people have 30 votes total, but person A has 20 NVC while B has 25 NVC.