No predictor of the day?

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buscher Send message Joined: 13 Oct 10 Posts: 9 Credit: 4,600,648 RAC: 563	Message 98965 - Posted: 11 Sep 2020, 15:03:16 UTC I just noticed that there is not always a "predictor of the day". For example between 23 Apr 2020, 0:00:00 UTC - 15 Apr 2020, 0:00:00 UTC was no predictor of the day. And maybe today as well? Why? Did some people refuse to be publically highlighted? Or did the "predictor of the day"-service just crash in this time? Or did the results turn out to be invalid? I am sure some people crunched numbers hard in this time frame and deserve the spotlight ;-) ID: 98965 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

BradB Send message Joined: 1 Oct 18 Posts: 24 Credit: 13,981,542 RAC: 0	Message 99810 - Posted: 29 Nov 2020, 2:31:42 UTC - in response to Message 98965. The standing joke with 'predictor of the day' was awarding this distinction to users who dumped the project a decade or so previously, some with little to no credits. As to the hard work, the powers that be have a strict award standard now: RAC > 1. ID: 99810 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Aurum Send message Joined: 12 Jul 17 Posts: 32 Credit: 38,158,977 RAC: 0	Message 99823 - Posted: 30 Nov 2020, 15:16:00 UTC It would be better if Baker had badges. ID: 99823 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

buscher Send message Joined: 13 Oct 10 Posts: 9 Credit: 4,600,648 RAC: 563	Message 99974 - Posted: 9 Dec 2020, 21:51:17 UTC I looked at https://boincstats.eu/en/stats/14/project/detail/host (bottom right chart), it says, of all hosts: - 68,34% Linux - 27.5% Windows Then a wrote a quick script to grep all (visible) hosts by the predictor of the day: Windows: 448848 (90.5034015800107%) Linux: 47098 (9.49659841998927%) How does this add up? Is this just the work of the mighty random god? Or should I install windows right now to have a chance? ;-) FTR: Yes, I ignored Darwin/Android/FreeBSD/... ID: 99974 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote