The "(W)TF Depth Debate" state of the bunion

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by davieddy

It is what Garo, Aramis and I refer to as "Breathing Space"

Enjoy your breathing space, sir.

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by chalsall

Enjoy your breathing space, sir.

...and don't hold your breath for an early release this time.

[Prime95]

Originally Posted by chalsall

Enjoy your breathing space, sir.

For the record: A moderator gave davieddy a 6-month ban, not for the "breathing space" post, but rather a useless and crass response to kracker that was not approved.

[Batalov]

"The sight is dismal;
And our affairs from England come too late:
The ears are senseless that should give us hearing,
To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd,
That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead"

[kracker]

Originally Posted by Prime95

For the record: A moderator gave davieddy a 6-month ban, not for the "breathing space" post, but rather a useless and crass response to kracker that was not approved.

I am curious to what he said, since I only said one word in my post regarding him.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by kracker

I am curious to what he said, since I only said one word in my post regarding him.

#208....

[kracker]

Originally Posted by chalsall

#208....

Ah I see. Well, I would have said the same to him... except someone already did it for me.

[Batalov]

It is called the Golden Rule:
"One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself."

[TheMawn]

Originally Posted by Aramis Wyler

I mean really, saying omg we should release at 73 because someday if we might fail to release at 74 and be forced to release at 73 is farcical.

Originally Posted by Aramis Wyler

It's like preemptive failure so as to say that we didn't fail.

Originally Posted by Prime95

A superb and concise analysis of this whole mess.

Good god I wish I had thought of that way to say it. Very nicely said.

I always took the approach of "We can TF 63M - 999M to 73 before ever contemplating TF to 74" vs "We can TF the work being done TOMORROW to 74 and worry about bringing the rest up to 73 and then 74 later when we're there"


David: Your predictions of us being knee-deep in shit by the end of the month have been wrong. Repeatedly. Whatever your theory is must be completely wrong. I'm a bit too busy at the moment but I will go dig up these predictions if you deny having made them.

Aramis kind of brings up an old point of mine. How long do you want us to TF to 73 for until we bring them to 74? We're obviously close-ish to having the firepower to do 74, at the very least. This means we're almost capable of TF to 73 twice as many exponents as we can LL. How much of a buffer do you want?

At worst, we release a few 73's (cue Chris to tell us about Spidy's ripcords). At best we TF extremely efficiently, using every bit of our firepower not a week too soon.

In your lovely situation of having a 50,000 exponent buffer, we put loads of time into TF that only gets LL'ed six months down the line. Inefficient.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by TheMawn

David: Your predictions of us being knee-deep in shit by the end of the month have been wrong. Repeatedly. Whatever your theory is must be completely wrong. I'm a bit too busy at the moment but I will go dig up these predictions if you deny having made them.

Thanks for your support, but please let it go.

Nothing to see here; everything is fine....

[petrw1]

It appears George is letting standard factor assignments go to 72 bits in the 70M range.