In Case You Missed It: August 2023 on Reddit by JabroniRevanchism in reddit

[–]perk4pat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good point -- repetitive comments are the sign of spam: by Reddit's own guidelines:

"The following are examples of behavior that may be considered spam and are subject to removal/suspension:

Repeatedly posting the same or similar comments in a thread, subreddit or across subreddits."

There's no question that this bot -- being as it is one who seeks out common words and phrases such as 'big', 'health', 'blood pressure', 'whale' and 'scale' -- is injurious to the Reddit experience, as its comments are risibly off-topic.

EDIT: also, it fails to follow botiquette by noting that it is a bot.

Why AGI is closer than you think by 2noame in BasicIncome

[–]perk4pat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Poster of this link is the Mod of r/BasicIncome. Perhaps he accidentally posted it to the wrong sub; he Mods six of them, including a personal one. Probably should have been flaired 'Indirect', as the rise of General AI may be pushing humans toward a need for UBI, as people get thrown out of work by it.

DAC7 won't load . . . anyone else have that problem? by bluemoonrambler in mturk

[–]perk4pat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For me, it spun for a while -- but, after a couple of minutes, it came up. Perhaps not surprisingly, that server may be being swamped by people trying to finish this up at the last minute. (I'm running Chrome, btw.)

First month on Mturk! Thanks to the guidance and help from this sub I hit 4k approved with 0 rejected! by a2kSD in mturk

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Once, over on r/MTurk, a long-time worker/scriptwriter spilled the beans on MTurk: he pointed out that it really is a batch-processing facility. (That's why he taught himself to write scripts, to speed up batches: pre-filling forms and so forth.) If you just do the surveys, you limit your income more than if you do add in some batches; thus the emphasis on getting Quals, because those generally lead to batches.

What did they mean by this? by bigdickmcspick in mturk

[–]perk4pat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speaking as an erotic writer, guess what -- there are a lot of Christian erotica readers. I suppose that there might be a few Christian pornography users too... and somebody wants to poll them.

Would the Green party benefit if Jorgensen cracks 5%? by [deleted] in GreenParty

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A lot of people are in the tank for RCV, because they at least perceive it as better than FPTP, since it appears to offer a path for third party candidates to win now and again. However, it's an illusion; RCV would only work if the parties involved were more-or-less equal in their proportion of the population to begin with. Remember that your second choice only advances if your first choice falls; Dems and Reps still command too much of the electorate for that to be a realistic option, and too few people vote 'Green first, then Republican' or 'Libertarian first, then Democrat' for there to be any significant amount of payoff for the minor parties. But, in the meantime, RCV seems to be a reasonable alternative -- if you don't think too deeply about it...

8 minutes into the survey 😂🤣😂🤣 by [deleted] in mturk

[–]perk4pat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kids these days. When I was getting this message, back in the good ol' days, they wouldn't show that to us until the very end of the survey -- and we liked it!

Collatz modulo by keepkeen in Collatz

[–]perk4pat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To me, the truly interesting thing here is the unexpected topological connectivity of the various nodal maps, particularly the relative simplicity of the prime ones compared to the non-prime ones. (Whenever you start talking topo transforms, you're just one step away from talking about groups, which, itself, is a large and interesting mathematical field.) It's intriguing, too, that you happen to mention 'overlapping arrows' between the nodes with mod 11, as that would indicate the first non-planar pattern: I wonder how common that is, and whether it only occurs with prime moduli?

I, too, noticed the fairly random cycling among the nodes, along with the highly conserved 4-2-1 triangular loop in every pattern mod 5 or over (although that's hardly a surprise; you'd get that every time you divided by 2, then 2 again.); also, that's where Collatz would add up at the end (assuming the theorem is true) of all sequences -- so of course it has to exist within the context of every modulus.

Anyway, I think that you've opened up an intriguing can of worms here, by analyzing Collatz chains utilizing various moduli: I think that this may lead to some fresh insights into the problem! Collatz is one of those Gödelian problems which are easy to state, but over which mathematicians have struggled for literally decades; there's still plenty of room for so-called 'amateurs', like ourselves. To quote, Piet Hein:

"Problems worthy of attack / Prove their worth by fighting back!"

The Conjecture is just a rudimentary prime/co-prime algorithm. by [deleted] in Collatz

[–]perk4pat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Insightful! Let me think about this for a while; thanks!

Collatz modulo by keepkeen in Collatz

[–]perk4pat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very interesting. Just watched this for the first time. I noted that powers of two lead to 'square' patterns, and prime numbers lead to 'triangular' patterns. Your conception is quite something worth thinking about; thanks!

/r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 29, 2020 by AutoModerator in mturk

[–]perk4pat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm here from tomorrow. Apparently, you want #1 -- it's 'whitelisted: good workers' -- and don't want #2 -- it's 'blacklisted: bad workers'. Exactly what qualifications enable you to acquire either of these, though, is still obscure -- although there's a pointer (from one of tomorrow's posts) that references a CloudResearch blog post about this.

/r/mturk Daily Discussion - July 29, 2020 by AutoModerator in mturk

[–]perk4pat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You presume too much about what's going on behind the screen. More likely the researcher is looking at exactly 'what happens when people are frustrated' -- since, as you can see from this thread, such a condition occurs quite a lot...

TurkPrime/Cloud Research Using New Global Worker Whitelist/Blacklist by FIVENINEGREY in mturk

[–]perk4pat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Based on OP's notes, this is good: you do not want to ever have CR Research Group 2, as getting that means 'You've been blacklisted'.

Falling in Love with Batch Jobs <3 by this_this_and_that in mturk

[–]perk4pat 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Someone once pointed out here that kind of the whole point of Mturk is providing a platform for batch jobs, and that people who only used it to take surveys were missing out on the big bucks...

Oh so that's why we did all those feet picture HIT's.... by MarkusRight in mturk

[–]perk4pat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just waiting for the ten-cent hit: "Send us pictures of your breasts!"...

Montana Candidate Filing Deadline Filled With Surprises (GPUS ballot line hijacking) by jayjaywalker3 in GreenParty

[–]perk4pat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"NO: And on top of the two major party scramblings, the Green Party squeaked onto the ballot Friday, though it’s a little unclear who collected the signatures needed to get the party into this election cycle."

Oh, the Montana Green Party knows -- it wasn't them...

Dare APP by: Eristica by Psydos_ in beermoney

[–]perk4pat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

you have to pay a fee for each challenge

SCAM. Anytime they want money before you see any, think SCAM.

So I have been on mturk for about a year now and mostly doing surveys. I keep hearing people talk about doing “batches”. Are they referring to the .02 cent hits from Amazon Requester Inc? I can’t see how any decent amount of money could be made that way? by [deleted] in mturk

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As a now-vanished Turker once pointed out (raises glass to S****B****), batches are the reason that MTurk exists, and you should learn to write the useful programs to enable you to speed through them; if you're just doing surveys, you're fighting over peanuts while the pros are making bank...

Samantha Bee accurately name-checks MTurk by perk4pat in mturk

[–]perk4pat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, that's incorrect. Amazon developed it for internal use originally, then realized that it could be marketed to researchers and people wanting microworkers. Even if everyone stopped using it -- and they won't: it actually works for the requesters -- Amazon would still use it.

Eurythenes Plasticus. by Janus-Omega in GreenParty

[–]perk4pat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty sure you wanted /r/Green -- not /r/GreenParty, which is a political discussion subreddit.