The stats masters thread

[biodoc]

Originally posted by: Drsignguy

Btw, don't piss off the moose, they're mean!

:laugh: I'll remember that if I ever see a moose!

The only moose I ever saw was Bullwinkle & he was a friendly moose!

Great read Peter!:beer:

 

[petrusbroder]

Originally posted by: Drsignguy
...
Btw, don't piss off the moose, they're mean! My sister-in-law knows this and she told me some interesting stories of her days living in Alaska...and here in Minnasota...

Well , there is a difference between the Canadian/American moose and the Scandinavian ...
1. The Scandinavian seem smaller to me - the bulls are about 400 - 600kg, the cows 300 - 400 kg. The American seemed larger ... OTOH when you meet one with e.g. 14 - 16 tips to their horns they loom very large.
2. The Swedish moose are not so mean compared to the American. I have heard a lot of stories in the northern Rockeis about mean moose, but virually none in Sweden. The only time they are mean is when they are sick and need to get shot.
Sometimes they get drunk on fermented berries though - and you know how things are: some people tolerate alcohol well, others don't. It is the same with moose
3. We try to keep the population down: each year some 100 000 - 110 000 moose are hunted and put into the freezers in Sweden - the population is very large - there are supposed to be some 400 000 - 450 000 moose in Sweden alone. Considering that each cow has one young each year the population increases slowly.
4. Due to the huinting the scandinavian moose are quite shy ...

Here is a pic of a very typical moose ...
... and here is an other one!

 

[biodoc]

It doesn't surprise me that a Swedish moose would be friendlier than an American moose but......those Swedish moose look big to me!!

:beer:

PS: How does moose meat taste? Grilled moose steaks or grilled moose burgers?

Hopefully it doesn't taste like chicken!

:beer:

 

[Drsignguy]

Originally posted by: biodoc
It doesn't surprise me that a Swedish moose would be friendlier than an American moose but......those Swedish moose look big to me!!

:beer:

PS: How does moose meat taste? Grilled moose steaks or grilled moose burgers?

Hopefully it doesn't taste like chicken!
:beer:

LOL :laugh:


I wouldn't know what moose tastes like but I do know what Moosehead beer tastes like?


And the American Moose are very long legged. Tall....Big bastards! Peter is right!


Never hunted moose, and never will....:Q

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Vod-Moose? Nah, doesn't have the same ring to it. Eat the Moose (what's the plural of Moose? Mooses? Moosi?). Save the cows for vodka production.

 

[Rudy Toody]

I prefer moose to be slow-cooked like Swiss steak.

 

[petrusbroder]

Slow-cooked moose tastes very good - absolutely not like chicken .
Much more wild, tangy. If the moose was shot the correct way (i.e. without being suspicious and stressed) the meat is somewhat sweet.
Grilled moose is also very good.
Moose-burgers taste very similar to moose steak and does not need sauce ...

 

[petrusbroder]

December 11, 2008:

This day goes in the sign of wariness and I just don't know why. I slept well and long enough, had a good breakfast, but then ... on the way to my office ... I almost turned around and went back home. But I did not.
I slept between meetings (instead of doing paper work).
A nap during lunch.
A quick shut-eye during the coffee break.
Went home early.
When coming home, after dinner, after some hours of being with the kids and wife, the wariness left. Some kind of peace descended. All was well. I still do not know why I was so tired.

*The FAH-stats are done - they look really good.
*The Seti@home have created a CUDA-application for NVIDIA GPUs - I really like that. I wonder what kind of math went into that...
* I found some books, which have been lost for years. I am very glad.

I think I better stop here - with the words: I am very glad.


13 more days to Christmas Eve.
14 more days to Christmas Day.
20 more days to New Years Eve.
21 more days to the end of the Folding@home Race.
21 more days to the end of the WCG New Year Challenge.

 

[petrusbroder]

Ahhhhhhhh, it was so nice to sleep ...

The WCG-stats are done. My family has a hard time to understand why I do stats so early in the morning ...
They do not know the concept of stats addiction.

BTW, shouldn't we start a new group DCSAA (Distributed Computing Statistic Addiction Anonymous)?

 

[petrusbroder]

December 12, 2008:

This has been a somewhat odd day - filled with contrasts and opposites: sadness and joy, sense of accomplishment and sense of inadequacy, love, hate, action and peace.

OK, one thing at a time: This is the recount of a day of a petrusbroder ... [all time stamps are local time UTC +1.]

05:30 The early morning was nice: woke up by myself, felt rested. Got into my training duffels, drove to IKSU, the Umeå University Student's Sports Club. It has a large gym and a Olympic swimming pool. After some 40 minutes weights: 1 000 m swimming. Then 20 minutes in the hot water tub by myself - so relaxing. No beer though...
07:00 Breakfast with some 20 of my colleagues: we meet every Friday for some exercise and a breakfast. During the breakfast we have a lecture or presentation - today we had two: the first about the poetic rhymes of early Scandinavia bards (i.e. the Vikings), the second about how to run a large sports club: the Umeå Soccer Club, which is now one of the best in women's soccer in the world. This was the first of the contrasts - Something almost archaic and something very very current. The lecturers were very good - no dead time, very nice presentations and time just flew by.
09:00 At the hospital: the daily morning meeting with the staff: what has happened during the night, what will happen during the day, who needs support ... an energetic meeting: like a bunch of rested sledge dog eager to pull the whole day.
09:30 At the hospital: doctor's meeting: the younger residents and interns need guidance: we discuss patients, their problems, change medication, delegate tasks to the young --- I was going to write puppies in white: some of the doctors seem so young, so eager to do right and to please. I got to change that eagerness to please without changing the wish to do right. During this 1 hour meeting almost 40 different documented decisions are made ... somewhat too much. But probably 38 of those decisions are 85 - 100% correct, and the none or one is wrong.
10:30 Coffee break. Informal discussion about the budget of the unit with the chairman of the steering committee: she confirmed that my budget will be increased by more than 25%.
11:00 Treatment planning meeting for one of the more complicated patients. The walk through of the patient takes some 25 minutes, the discussion until 12:00. If this fails the patient will be dead due to drug abuse and schizophrenia within the next 3 - 4 months. Some very hard decisions: which is better ... which does less harm ... a meeting which no-one leaves untouched.
12:15 Christmas concert in the University Main Hall: A top-notch student's choir sing Swedish Christmas carols in such a way that the Christmas peace descends on all. All are quiet, all seem peace full, no loud comments even 5 minutes after the last song ... They sang so well ...
13:00 Medical rounds before the week end: 30 decisions in less than 45 minutes. Which are correct, which are wrong? which will do good, which will do nothing? The nurses seem overburdened - they need rest, but will get none for the next 4 - 5 hours. I see a young nurse leaning at the door post with tears in her eyes - so much to do, so little time, so many needing people, so few helpers. The ward is really a battle field. I stop at the nurse and order her to take a rest for at least 20 minutes, to eat a banana, to sleep if she can. She protests "I can't; xx needs this, yy needs that ... ". I ask: "Are you opposing a direct order? I'll clear it with your supervisor, you are in no shape to work effectively just now!" 10 minutes later I see her running back to the ward ...
14:30 At the funeral of one of my nurses who died some 10 days ago; one of the pillars in the department. there were more than 75 guests in the chapel. All said their good bye: her parents, old, sad, crying; her children, one with a very much visibly broken heart, many friends, all in dark; many members of the hospital staff ... It was a very moving funeral, not too long, not too short, very nice hymns. From the funeral arose a feeling of joy: she is not anymore in this place of suffering (she was a nurse for a reason); she is now in peace, with the Lord, whether in calmness or in action I do not know, but it feels very much more appropriate if she would rise ... not exactly hell ... but still some action in heaven. This thought made me smile: can you imagine a nurse telling God what to do and how to do it? I can ...
16:00 A few phone calls to the hospital from my car: all seems well and prepared for the week end. At the computer store I purchase a new router: the old one is 3 years old and needs rebooting (due to some hardware problem) once every three - four days. I already feel happy about the reconfiguration of the network: I have decided to change a few things - to the better I hope.
16:30 Picking up my wife for a "after work dinner" in a nice Greek restaurant. A lot of people, a lot of laughs, good food. No beer and wine - I am on-call until Saturday morning ... a nice conversation about a trip to Oz in November 2009: where to go, what to see, whom to meet ...
18:30 At home. The kids are not at home: they are with friends and will be back late ... the evening should be calm, but you never know - sickness and problems arise often without warning ...
19:30 The Folding@home stats - looks very good - no problems. A new user added De LiRium. I like his name ...

This was a good day. Filled with sadness and joy, sense of accomplishment and sense of inadequacy, love, hate, action and peace.

How will the night become?

12 more days to Christmas Eve.
13 more days to Christmas Day.
19 more days to New Years Eve.
20 more days to the end of the Folding@home Race.
20 more days to the end of the WCG New Year Challenge.

 

[Insidious]

OK, now I feel like a lazy bum.......

Got up, worked for my 8 hours + lunch.....









BUT I GOT TO TALK TO MY KID TODAY

-Sid

 

[Drsignguy]

Peter, you seemed to have a long day full of emotions. I would be very tired. But you did it and you are on to the next day. Again, sorry for your loss of a friend. Thanks for the reads!!!






Sid, at least you get to talk to your kid.... and hey you worked 8 hours today.:thumbsup:


I only did 6 hours. Got up at 3am, was at work by 5am and froze my azz off :Q with -5 degree weather! Finished my job and said, "I am going home". So, here I am!

 

[petrusbroder]

No need to feel lazy at all - it was a slightly unusual day - but not too much.
You get used to emotional roller coasters - and yes, I was tired.

The most important thing though: it was not boring and most of the day was posititive. I never said anything about the day being in any way bad ... it was a good one! Tiring and exhausting, yes, but that are most of my days. Except for the funeral, it was all pretty standard Friday.

 

[petrusbroder]

December 14, 2008:

Well, well, well, this has been a busy week end:

Not only do the stats look really good in both the races (Folding@home and WCG) but there are new developments almost everywhere:

I have switched Lightstar from TAS to The Folders. This is due to the fact that TAS was marching ahead almost too much: Gravity has lost some output due to a power outage, and the ppd seems to be falling somewhat. With Lightstar in the Folders the starting field is more equal - now less than 3000 ppd differ between the teams - before it was in the order of more than 25 000 ppd. Also Markfw900 is getting his hardware in shape ...

In WCG I have tickled the nerve of [Hard]-OPC: They seem to love races, have a nice bantering style and are recruiting a lot. They may want to beat us, but we should give them a run for their money. I hope to recruit some more crunchers --- it would be nice seeing caferace, RudyToody and IJump join in this. I have switched 17 computers to WCG 100% - it will be fun to see what happens.

My total BOINC- output is falling. It is a great difference between the high- yield projects such as ABC@home and MilkyWay@home and the more traditional projects such as seti@home, Rosetta, WCG and quite a few others. It kind of hurts to see the RAC falling although the comps crunch as much as before. I really think that the scoring should be more equal ...

At home I have at last finished my home office: moved all the books where they should be, thrown out a lot of trash, organized all the papers and CD-ROMs, the scanner is hooked up and all works. Especially I like my small fridge and my espresso-machine - hmmm is there a CPU in the espresso-machine? Got to check that ...



10 more days to Christmas Eve.
11 more days to Christmas Day.
17 more days to New Years Eve.
18 more days to the end of the Folding@home Race.
18 more days to the end of the WCG New Year Challenge.

 

[Drsignguy]

I see that you have done some changes. Its all good no matter what you do..:thumbsup:


Thanks BTW!

 

[petrusbroder]

December 16, 2008:

I have not posted here for two days ... because not much has happened. OK, I am down with a massive head cold, which is a pain in the nose (ha, you almost thought I would write something different), and which makes working quite ... different. Not better in any way.

OTOH, I am well taken care of at home. In our house those who have an infectious disease are not allowed to deal with the food. Very nice. No cooking for me. No washing up either - but that is seldom any issue, since the washer works perfectly well.

The race with [Hard]OPC is on its way too - this will be fun. They are not catching up yet. But I think they will. They are recruiting heavily and may get sufficient power. On the other hand, we are recruiting too - and some heavy crunchers may join. It will be needed.

Races are fun. The race in our team (Folding@Home) gives some food for thoughts: how to balance the teams. I want the race to be a real race, i.e. the outcome should not be predictable for a long time. In that matter I have not succeded yet, but the balance is closer since the last recruited Folders joined. I think that I will not touch the teams anymore because now half of the race is past, and we need the second half for stabilizing. On the other hand: what to do when somebody more wants to join? I think I will flipp a virtual coin ... heads for one team, tails for the other. That is at least more fair.
If the folder has a preferrence? And that preferrence decides the race as soon as the member joins ... someone like e.g. Arlen with a ppd of 21 000+ going to one team and the race is done after 1 or 2 days. That would kind of deflate the race.

I have as yet not bought any Christmas presents. My wife and I have decided not to give more than one present to each kid. But it is a weird feeling not being out there and hunting presents and bargains. Relaxing in one way, somewhat disquieting in an other.


8 more days to Christmas Eve.
9 more days to Christmas Day.
15 more days to New Years Eve.
16 more days to the end of the Folding@home Race.
16 more days to the end of the WCG New Year Challenge

 

[Neurodog]

Thanks for your daily update! and good luck with your Christmas shopping when you get to it.

Lucky me, My wife does all the shopping. minus hers.

Now I'm starting to worry since she's been gone shopping since this morning(6 hours ago)! I should check our credit card!

 

[petrusbroder]

No, better not. The bill will come sooner or later, and it may be better if it comes later than sooner ...

 

[Insidious]

Make her show you the bill on February 13th.

It'll help with the expectations on the 14th. :evil:

(YES I AM KIDDING :roll: )

:beer:

-Sid

 

[Neurodog]

Originally posted by: Insidious
Make her show you the bill on February 13th.

It'll help with the expectations on the 14th. :evil:

(YES I AM KIDDING :roll: )

:beer:

-Sid

LOL I would have to call that a good "get out of jail" card!

 

[petrusbroder]

December 20, 2008:
Long time since I have posted here ... but things are quite hectic, four days before Christmas Eve. A lot to do - just the food shopping took 2 hours today (and we were among the first to the supermarket).
We will be eight around the Christmas table and in an traditional Swedish Christmas dinner is a lot of food:

We start with herring (in Swedish: sill) - prepared in different ways: at least three varieties. With the herring, potatoes, some red-beet-salad, some veggies (in our family it does not matter what kind). With the herring the adults drink a Aquavit - a kind of brandy.

Then comes the salmon: in our house smoked and cooked. With the salmon often thin bread or potatoes and a special sauce: Hovmästasås. It fits perfectly with the smoked salmon; with the cooked salmon you take a sauce béchamel (white sauce, with a discreet lemon taste).

After the salmon the meats are served: cooked ham, Swedish meat balls, small sausages. You add mustard, horse radish, cooked red cabbage, peas, or other vegetables. Now probably wine will be served - or beer for those who like that.

After this you barely can walk, and I usually now serve the cheese: some strong cheese from Västerbotten, a well matured brie, a cheddar and finally a Dana Blue. Probably we will have a Västerbotten-cheese pie too - depends on if we will have the time to prepare it.

After the cheese come the sweets: an apple-pie, or chocolate cake or just vanilla ice cream with hot cloudberries.

When all this is eaten, the emergency service usually sends an ambulance or two for further rapid transportation to the local hospital for an acute and rapid expansion of the gastric cavity, because the food is so good, that we want to start from the beginning.


4 more days to Christmas Eve.
5 more days to Christmas Day.
11 more days to New Years Eve.
12 more days to the end of the Folding@home Race.
12 more days to the end of the WCG New Year Challenge

Merry Christmas for those who celebrate, Happy Holiday Season for all the others;
may all Joy and Happiness be with you and your families!

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
December 20, 2008:
Long time since I have posted here ... but things are quite hectic, four days before Christmas Eve. A lot to do - just the food shopping took 2 hours today (and we were among the first to the supermarket).
We will be eight around the Christmas table and in an traditional Swedish Christmas dinner is a lot of food:

We start with herring (in Swedish: sill) - prepared in different ways: at least three varieties. With the herring, potatoes, some red-beet-salad, some veggies (in our family it does not matter what kind). With the herring the adults drink a Aquavit - a kind of brandy.

Then comes the salmon: in our house smoked and cooked. With the salmon often thin bread or potatoes and a special sauce: Hovmästasås. It fits perfectly with the smoked salmon; with the cooked salmon you take a sauce béchamel (white sauce, with a discreet lemon taste).

After the salmon the meats are served: cooked ham, Swedish meat balls, small sausages. You add mustard, horse radish, cooked red cabbage, peas, or other vegetables. Now probably wine will be served - or beer for those who like that.

After this you barely can walk, and I usually now serve the cheese: some strong cheese from Västerbotten, a well matured brie, a cheddar and finally a Dana Blue. Probably we will have a Västerbotten-cheese pie too - depends on if we will have the time to prepare it.

After the cheese come the sweets: an apple-pie, or chocolate cake or just vanilla ice cream with hot cloudberries.

When all this is eaten, the emergency service usually sends an ambulance or two for further rapid transportation to the local hospital for an acute and rapid expansion of the gastric cavity, because the food is so good, that we want to start from the beginning.


4 more days to Christmas Eve.
5 more days to Christmas Day.
11 more days to New Years Eve.
12 more days to the end of the Folding@home Race.
12 more days to the end of the WCG New Year Challenge

Merry Christmas for those who celebrate, Happy Holiday Season for all the others;
may all Joy and Happiness be with you and your families!

What a delicious way to spend the holiday with loved ones!

If I mail myself there..... will you feed me?

-Sid

:beer:

 

[Neurodog]

Originally posted by: Insidious

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
December 20, 2008:
Long time since I have posted here ... but things are quite hectic, four days before Christmas Eve. A lot to do - just the food shopping took 2 hours today (and we were among the first to the supermarket).
We will be eight around the Christmas table and in an traditional Swedish Christmas dinner is a lot of food:

We start with herring (in Swedish: sill) - prepared in different ways: at least three varieties. With the herring, potatoes, some red-beet-salad, some veggies (in our family it does not matter what kind). With the herring the adults drink a Aquavit - a kind of brandy.

Then comes the salmon: in our house smoked and cooked. With the salmon often thin bread or potatoes and a special sauce: Hovmästasås. It fits perfectly with the smoked salmon; with the cooked salmon you take a sauce béchamel (white sauce, with a discreet lemon taste).

After the salmon the meats are served: cooked ham, Swedish meat balls, small sausages. You add mustard, horse radish, cooked red cabbage, peas, or other vegetables. Now probably wine will be served - or beer for those who like that.

After this you barely can walk, and I usually now serve the cheese: some strong cheese from Västerbotten, a well matured brie, a cheddar and finally a Dana Blue. Probably we will have a Västerbotten-cheese pie too - depends on if we will have the time to prepare it.

After the cheese come the sweets: an apple-pie, or chocolate cake or just vanilla ice cream with hot cloudberries.

When all this is eaten, the emergency service usually sends an ambulance or two for further rapid transportation to the local hospital for an acute and rapid expansion of the gastric cavity, because the food is so good, that we want to start from the beginning.


4 more days to Christmas Eve.
5 more days to Christmas Day.
11 more days to New Years Eve.
12 more days to the end of the Folding@home Race.
12 more days to the end of the WCG New Year Challenge

Merry Christmas for those who celebrate, Happy Holiday Season for all the others;
may all Joy and Happiness be with you and your families!

What a delicious way to spend the holiday with loved ones!

If I mail myself there..... will you feed me?

-Sid

:beer:

I was thinking the same thing!

 

[petrusbroder]

Insidious and Neurodog, of course I would.
This is the time to feed friends, relatives and those who knock on your door, as long as they come at a reasonable time ...
I'll keep my email client active ... if by chance ...

3 more days to Christmas Eve.
4 more days to Christmas Day.
10 more days to New Years Eve.
11 more days to the end of the Folding@home Race.
11 more days to the end of the WCG New Year Challenge

 

[petrusbroder]

December 22, 2008:

Today something nice happened: All th trees turned white. We have had an ordinary winter until now. But tonight all the trees turned white with frost. It is as in a fairy tale.



2 more days to Christmas Eve.
3 more days to Christmas Day.
9 more days to New Years Eve.
10 more days to the end of the Folding@home Race.
10 more days to the end of the WCG New Year Challenge