:: 28-Jul-1999 21:23 (Wednesday) ::
Lots of tiny things on stats over the past few days. I’m sure you’ve
noticed by now the new “odds to find key” on everybody’s psummary
and tmsummary pages. Started out as a quick little hack, but turned out
to be fairly involved because I also took the opportunity to add some
new fields to the daily_blocks table.
Previously I had a simple cache table that stored date,blocks to make
Daa’s daily_totals_raw.php3 query run nice and fast. (used to generate
the keyrate graphs). I added a bunch of fields to the table to track
the #1 ranked team and participant for each day as well. This way
we’ll be able to track how many blocks it took to be in the #1 spot
from any given point in the project. Plus it adds a new element to
the #1 spot — how many consecutive days you can hold the position.
I still haven’t worked up the script that’s going to need to run to
populate the historical data, I suspect that’ll be a time-consuming run.
Data from 27-Jul on will be in there, though, obviously.
tally also has a nice, fresh kernel installed, and I toyed around with
memory allocation for sybase a bit today too.
Non-stats-related, I received word from the dWear (distributed.net
merchandise) vendor that they’d found a firm that thinks they can do a
better job on the distributed.net t-shirts. black instead of white, and
a much higher-quality transfer technology. I may have samples as soon
as this friday to review.