On Oct 3, 2009, at 1:31 AM, Richard Haselgrove wrote: > Paul D. Buck wrote: >> >> Wasn't me that said so ... it was you (and I quote): >> >> "There are also some fairly major drawbacks, and that is why I think >> it won't be implemented as is. First, it's immediately deflationary. >> The average host that connected to s...@home today earns 292 credits >> per day, which is significantly more than 100. There would be strong >> (perhaps irresistible) demand for projects to keep their current >> credit scheme for as long as possible. " >> >> http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=45024&nowrap=true#705408 > > Ah, at last we get to the bottom of the mystery. > > Paul, you're looking at the wrong script. > > That post of Eric's, dated 29 January 2008, is a commentary on a > proposal by David which was never implemented. The suggestion is > that David's script, not Eric's, would have been deflationary. > > The script which the rest of us are talking about was coded by Eric > some six months later (22 July 2008), and has been running at SETI > and SETI Beta ever since - I don't know how many other projects have > taken it up. That script is *NOT* deflationary, except to the > limited extent that Joe and I were talking about. You can check the > coding yourself at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/changeset/15661.
If you say it is deflationary, no need for me to check ... But you cannot be a little bit pregnant, you either are, or you aren't ... if it is deflationary, then, well, I am sorry, my statement is still valid ... even if it is only deflationary to a limited extent ... it is deflationary. How much that limited amount of deflation compounds ... who knows ... we really don't seem to keep historical records that would let us know the true impacts... My memory says that I saw at least one other place where a discussion of "the script" took place but I cannot recall where or the context and so in my present state there is no way I can find that ... And that discussion was about the fact that the deflation was taking place ... I will be honest I don't know of any other project that has publicly admitted to using the script. That does not mean that there aren't any, I just can't think of one off the top of my head... Sadly, and I think to the detriment of the whole process more and more projects have gone over to some variant of FLOPs counting which in the end seems to wind up being a "flat rate" in the end ... with straight up "flat rate" projects being the other main class ... oh, the third class are those that don't seem to ... oh, negativity ... better stop here ... _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
