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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 ;-)
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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.
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Message 99823 - Posted: 30 Nov 2020, 15:16:00 UTC

It would be better if Baker had badges.
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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/...
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